Population
3,862 pediatric patients diagnosed with Kawasaki disease between January 1997 and December 1999 across 50…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Informs Asian KD epidemiology and surveillance; leaves open whether IVIG drove the CA abnormality decline.
This nationwide survey in Korea demonstrates a high incidence of Kawasaki disease with a decreasing trend in coronary artery abnormalities during the 1990s, likely reflecting increased use of intravenous gamma-globulin.
Park et al. (2002) studied this question.
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