Predicting IVIG resistance in UK Kawasaki disease

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 366-368

  Davies, Sarah ^a   Sutton, Natalina ^a   Blackstock, Sarah ^a   Gormley, Stuart ^a,b   Hoggart, Clive J ^b   Levin, Michael ^a,b   Herberg, Jethro A ^a,b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANT; KOBAYASHI SCORE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANEURYSM; DRUG RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY ANEURYSM; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84925002423     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307397     Document Type: Article

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