Prospective follow-up cardiac evaluation of children with Kawasaki disease in Northern India using the Japanese echocardiography criteria

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 299-307

  Kothur, Kavitha ^a   Singh, Surjit ^a   Sharma, Yashpaul ^a   Mittal, B R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Echocardiography (cardiac evaluation); Immunologic factors (immunoglobulin); Kawasaki disease (India, developing country)

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THALLIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; SCINTIGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38549141278     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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