Platelet vascular endothelial growth factor is a useful predictor for prognosis in Kawasaki syndrome

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-292

  Ueno, Kentaro ^a   Nomura, Yuichi ^a   Hashiguchi, Teruto ^a   Masuda, Kiminori ^b   Morita, Yasuko ^b   Hazeki, Daisuke ^a   Eguchi, Taisuke ^a   Maruyama, Ikuro ^a   Kawano, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery abnormalities; Kawasaki syndrome; Mean platelet volume; Platelet; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SODIUM; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 72649091783     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07922.x     Document Type: Article

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