Kawasaki disease: A decade of experience from North India

International Heart Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 679-689

  Singh, Surjit ^a   Bansal, Arun ^a   Gupta, Anju ^a   Kumar, Rohit Manoj ^a   Mittal, B R ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

2 D echocardiography; India; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Kawasaki disease; Thallium scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART PERFUSION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LIP DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN REDNESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TONGUE DISEASE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WINTER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ARRHYTHMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME;

EID: 33644873296     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.46.679     Document Type: Article

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