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Kawasaki Disease Presenting as Acute Intestinal Obstruction.


ABSTRACT: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile illness of childhood associated with vasculitis of medium-sized arteries especially the coronary arteries. Typical clinical features involving the skin, mucous surfaces, etc., occur sequentially over a few days. We report a rare presentation of KD as a surgical abdomen in a 2-year-old boy. Awareness of this presentation is important as it can otherwise lead to a delay in starting potentially life-saving intervention like intravenous immunoglobulins for cardiac complications kept cryptic by the manifest acute abdomen.

SUBMITTER: Lone YA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5473306 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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