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Fifteen-minute consultation: Kawasaki disease: how to distinguish from other febrile illnesses: tricks and tips

Kelly A, Sales K, Fenton-Jones M, et al. Fifteen-minute consultation: Kawasaki disease: how to distinguish from other febrile illnesses: tricks and tips. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice 2020;105:152-156.

Abstract 

Kawasaki disease (KD) is challenging to diagnose because there is no speci c laboratory test and the presentation is often similar to common childhood infections. We highlight some of those KD diagnostic challenges. KD, a self-limiting vasculitis, can cause coronary artery aneurysms. The aim is to optimise management during the acute febrile illness to try and prevent these because a giant coronary artery aneurysm is devastating enough without thinking that it might have been prevented. The conundrum for acute paediatricians is which clinical features best distinguish the febrile child with possible KD, needing intravenous immunoglobulin, from the many other children with febrile illnesses. 

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