Key result
A newborn male presented with an incomplete clinical presentation of Kawasaki disease immediately after birth, highlighting the possibility of neonatal KD even without classic features like fever.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the rare possibility of Kawasaki disease presenting in the immediate postnatal period without classic features such as fever, emphasizing the need for clinical vigilance to prevent coronary artery aneurysms.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is one of the most common causes of childhood systemic vasculitis, with the potential to cause significant cardiovascular complications, especially if undiagnosed. An investigation of coronary artery abnormalities with the application of appropriate therapeutic measures can improve the prognosis in these infants, decreasing the risk of coronary artery aneurysms. Neonatal KD is a rare event, often characterized only by few of the clinical features observed in older children. In this case report, we describe a newborn male who presented an incomplete clinical presentation of KD, where symptoms of the disease erupted immediately after birth. The objective of this report is to draw the attention of pediatricians and neonatologists to the possible presence of KD in an asymptomatic newborn during the immediate postnatal period, even in the absence of the classic features of KD, such as fever.
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Magalhães et al. (2018) conducted a case report in Kawasaki disease (n=1). Kawasaki disease was evaluated on Clinical presentation of Kawasaki disease. A newborn male presented with an incomplete clinical presentation of Kawasaki disease immediately after birth, highlighting the possibility of neonatal KD even without classic features like fever.
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