@Article{Popravko2024,
journal="Pediatria Polska - Polish Journal of Paediatrics",
issn="0031-3939",
volume="99",
number="1",
year="2024",
title="Kawasaki disease – characteristics, diagnosis, and management",
abstract="Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis of medium – sized vessels that affects infants and children. The etiology of KD is unclear. Typical KD requires the presence of fever of at least 5 days duration and coexisting ≥ 4/5 principal clinical features: bilateral bulbar conjunctival injection, erythema and cracking og lips, skin rash, erythema and edema of the palms and feet, unilateral cervical nonpurulent lymphadenopathy. If patient presents less than 4 of the principal clinical features, the diagnosis of incomplete KD should be considered. The basis of initiate treatment of KD is a single dose of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) with acetylsalicylic acid. But about 10–20% of patients do not respond to IVIG-therapy. Timely and adequate treatment of KD by IVIG and aspirin could help to prevent the development of coronary artery lesions, thats why diagnosis of KD is very important.",
author="Popravko, Yevheniia
and Siekierko, Nikola
and Kotusiewicz, Wiktoria
and Lewandowski, Mateusz
and Żołnierek, Maja
and Lubczyńska, Zuzanna
and Świętochowski, Jakub
and Bienia, Grzegorz",
pages="46--52",
doi="10.5114/polp.2024.135987",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/polp.2024.135987"
}