Kawasaki disease: systemic features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on kawasaki disease: systemic features: Pathology This is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis It is possibly of infective aetiology It is IgA mediated ITPKC is a possible susceptibility gene It has been associated with SARS-Cov-2 (COVID) infection Epidemiology…

Pathology

  • This is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis
  • It is possibly of infective aetiology
  • It is IgA mediated
  • ITPKC is a possible susceptibility gene
  • It has been associated with SARS-Cov-2 (COVID) infection

Epidemiology

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References

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  5. Ahmed M, Advani S, Moreira A, et al. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a systematic review. EClinicalMedicine 2020 (Online ahead of print).
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