Kawasaki disease before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a single-center comparative study in Switzerland

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> Kawasaki disease is a rare systemic inflammatory syndrome that mainly affects children under five years of age and is the first cause of pediatric acquired cardiovascular disease. The pathogenesis is complex and a viral trigger is suspected, as well as genetic susceptibility. Multiple studies around the world have shown a decrease in the incidence of Kawasaki dis...

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• COVID-19
• Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
• Incidence
• Infant
• Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
• Pandemics
• Phenotype
• SARS-CoV-2

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Literature Corpus work

d8a7076c-ae34-5c17-b2ff-b1d1268abb4c

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4412382/v1