POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF KAWASAKI DISEASE SHOCK SYNDROME IN TAIWAN

By using a National Health Insurance database, we investigated the occurrence of Kawasaki disease (KD) shock syndrome in Taiwan. KD shock syndrome occurred most frequently in winter, and the incidence was 1.45 per 100 patients with KD. Compared with KD patients without shock, KD shock syndrome patie...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2013-12, Vol.32 (12), p.1384-1386
Hauptverfasser:	LIN, Ming-Tai, FU, Chun-Min, HUANG, San-Kuei, HUANG, Shin-Chung, WU, Mei-Hwan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Biological and medical sciences Female Humans Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome - epidemiology Retrospective Studies Sarcoidosis. Granulomatous diseases of unproved etiology. Connective tissue diseases. Elastic tissue diseases. Vasculitis Shock - epidemiology Taiwan - epidemiology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	By using a National Health Insurance database, we investigated the occurrence of Kawasaki disease (KD) shock syndrome in Taiwan. KD shock syndrome occurred most frequently in winter, and the incidence was 1.45 per 100 patients with KD. Compared with KD patients without shock, KD shock syndrome patients were older, more likely to develop coronary lesions (15.9% vs. 7.0%) and had longer hospitalization duration.
ISSN:	0891-3668 1532-0987
DOI:	10.1097/inf.0b013e31829efae6