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Infantile Kawasaki disease and peripheral gangrene.

Durall AL, Phillips JR, Weisse ME, Mullett CJ

Department of Anesthesia, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

We report a 1-month-old infant with Kawasaki disease and peripheral gangrene. We advocate using the newly published American Heart Association guidelines advising early laboratory and echocardiogram investigations in infants with fever but without other classic manifestations of Kawasaki disease. Initiation of early therapy may prevent this serious complication with its permanent sequelae.

Published 24 July 2006 in J Pediatr, 149(1): 131-3.
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