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Can echocardiography aid in the early detection of cardiac involvement in Kawasaki's disease?
Can echocardiography aid in the early detection of cardiac involvement in Kawasaki's disease?
Echocardiography may be a useful non-invasive tool for early detection of cardiac involvement in Kawasaki's disease.
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Should not change practice yet in Kawasaki disease; leaves open the role of echocardiography pending prospective validation.
Kawasaki's disease or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome is being diagnosed with increasing freqency in this country. Although death is a rare complication coronary arteritis with associated myocardial changes is common. Echocardiography is proposed as a non-invasive study that may aid in the early detection of cardiac involvement.
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Don Wilson (1979) studied this question.
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