The Kawasaki disease in the National Institute of Pediatry
- Author:
Ha Sy Ho
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Kawasaki
- MeSH:
Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome;
Kawasaki Disease
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):31-33
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
33 patients with the Kawasaki disease diagnosed in the National Institute of Pediatry, with ages of 3-4.5 (male: 22; female: 11) during 2/1995- 4/2000. The results have shown that this was not a rarely disease in our country, current difficult to diagnose. The symptoms comprised pyrexia over 4 days, rash, red conjunctivitis, periostomatous change or the nodules in the maxillary should be attributed to the Kawasaki disease. The cardiovascular problem were comon in the progress of the disease: The coronary lesion: 12/30; coronary aneurysm 23.3%. There is no complication of the coronary aneurysm in patients who were administrated the gamaglobulin within the 2 weeks of the disease
