Clinical & laboratory profiles and treatment outcome of Kawasaki disease in children: Experience from a tertiary care hospital
Diagnosis of KD is essentially clinical and criteria-based and 95% were complicated with CAA. Timely intervention with IVIG was mostly effective. Therefore, high index of suspicion of a long-continued febrile child is recommended to reach the diagnosis and to initiate timely intervention so as to potentially prevent CAA.
Authors
- Shareen Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7762-9839)
- Nabila Tabassum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3647-3315)
- Amrita Lal Halder
- Md Abid Hossain Mollah
- Mohammod Jobayer Chisti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-3071)
- Nasreen Islam
- Fauzia Mohsin
- Abdul Baki
- Nurun Nahar Fatema
- Tasnima Ahmed
- Jebun Nahar
Institutions
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- Combined Military Hospital (PK)
- Armed Forces Medical College (BD)
- Institute of Child and Mother Health (BD)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-10-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328443
- Primary Topic
- Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Complications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Novo Nordisk Fonden