Adult Kawasaki disease unrelated to Epstein-Barr virus and group A Streptococcus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1182-1184

  Hattori, Tomohiro ^a   Matsukawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Takei, Masami ^a   Yamaguchi, Kenji ^a   Yamazaki, Tetsuo ^a   Sawada, Umihiko ^a   Sawada, Shigemasa ^a   Horie, Takashi ^a   Ayusawa, Mamoru ^a   Noto, Nobutaka ^a   Harada, Kensuke ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult; Aspirin; Harada scoring system; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Kawaski disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RASH; SCORING SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONGUE DISEASE; URINALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ASPIRIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 33644835520     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1182     Document Type: Article

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