Thirty Years of Kawasaki Disease: A Single-Center Study at the University Hospital of Lausanne

Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis with a particular involvement of the coronary arteries. Coronary artery aneurysms develop in 20% of untreated children. It has been shown that early treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins and aspirin decreases this risk to 5%, but the medium to long term p...

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Main Authors: Marion de La Harpe, Stefano di Bernardo, Michaël Hofer, Nicole Sekarski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2019.00011/full