ReviewJournal of medical case reports2015
Adult Kawasaki disease in a European patient: a case report and review of the literature.
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- Kawasaki disease with cardiac involvement revealed by acute pancreatitis in an adult: a rare case report.The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- Atypical Kawasaki disease with giant coronary artery aneurysms in a 2-month-old boy: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2024Article
- Two Cases of Adult-onset Kawasaki Disease with a Difficult Diagnosis.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023Article
- Kawasaki Disease: Unusual Presentation with Retropharyngeal Involvement.Case reports in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Delayed Kawasaki disease in an adult previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.JAAD case reports · 2022Article
- Superantigens and SARS-CoV-2.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dysphonia and dysphagia consequences of paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS).International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology · 2021Article
- Adult-onset recurrent Kawasaki disease: an unusual cause of fever of unknown origin.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Adult-onset Kawasaki disease: A great masquerader.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Five immune-gene-signatures participate in the development and pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2021Article
- Adult onset Kawasaki disease presenting with acute epiglottitis findings.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology · 2020Article
- Acute cholestasis as uncommon onset of Kawasaki disease: a case report.BMC gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Coronary sequelae of Kawasaki disease treated with rotational atherectomy and drug coated balloon: A case report.Medicine · 2020Article
- Coronary Artery Aneurysms: Analysis of Comorbidities from the National Inpatient Sample.Cureus · 2019Article
- A Presumed Etiology of Kawasaki Disease Based on Epidemiological Comparison With Infectious or Immune-Mediated Diseases.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Article
- Infliximab as an alternative therapy for refractory adult onset Kawasaki disease: A case report.Medicine · 2018Article
- Controversies in diagnosis and management of Kawasaki disease.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2018Review
- Incomplete Refractory Kawasaki Disease in an Infant-A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Article
- A History of Kawasaki Disease From Childhood and Coronary Artery Ectasia With Recurrent ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Therapeutic Challenge.Cardiology research · 2017Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionKawasaki disease is an acute necrotising vasculitis of the medium- and small-sized vessels, occurring mainly in Japanese and Korean babies and children, aged 6 months to 5 years. Its main complication is damage of coronary arteries, which has the potential to be fatal. Here we report a rare case of Kawasaki disease that occurred in a 20-year-old Greek adult. CASE PRESENTATION: A 20-year-old Greek man presented with high fever, appetite loss, nausea and vomiting, headache and significant malaise. He had an erythema of the palms and strikingly red lips and conjunctiva. As he did not respond to broad-spectrum antibiotics and after having excluded other possible diagnoses, the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease was set. He was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin and oral aspirin on the 10th day since the onset of the illness. His clinico-laboratory response was excellent and no coronary artery aneurysms were detected in coronary artery computed tomography performed 1 month later.
conclusionsThis report of an adult case of European Kawasaki disease may be of benefit to physicians of various specialties, including primary care doctors, hospital internists, intensivists and cardiologists. It demonstrates that a case of prolonged fever, unresponsive to antibiotics, in the absence of other diagnoses may be an incident of Kawasaki disease. It is worth stressing that such a diagnosis should be considered, even if the patient is adult and not of Asian lineage.
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