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Utilization of Clinical Criteria and Laboratory Investigations to Identify High Risk Children for Coronary Involvement in Kawasaki Disease Presenting to Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Kawasaki disease is an acute medium and small vessel vasculitis, which has a predilection for coronary arteries. Coronary artery involvement can vary from mild ectasia occurring nearly 40% to giant coronary artery aneurysms. Hence, we sought to determine a correlation between selected clinical and laboratory criteria in order to predict high risk children with Kawasaki disease for coronary involvement in order to optimise the initial management and follow up.

Serial analysis of Clinical, biochemical and echocardiographic parameters of 101 patients with diagnosed Kawasaki disease within the first 10 days of the illness and followed them up paying special attention to coronary artery dilatation according to coronary artery standard deviation charts

Author(s):

Dr Pulahinnage Thushara Milinda Rodrigo

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