Kawasaki disease complicated with reversible splenial lesion and acute myocarditis

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 696-699

  Itamura, Shinji ^a   Kamada, Masahiro ^a   Nakagawa, Naomi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocarditis; Kawasaki disease; Mild encephalitis encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS)

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNGITIS; SPLEEN INJURY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; HUMANS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051594331     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-011-9937-4     Document Type: Article

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