title: Risk factors of coronary arterial aneurysm in Kawasaki disease.
abstract: From April 1983 to August 1991, 70 cases of Kawasaki disease were admitted to Taiwan Provincial Tao-Yuan General Hospital. Fifty-seven patients treated with aspirin 80-100 mg/kg/day alone during the acute phase were followed by two-dimensional echocardiography for two weeks to two years. Twelve cases (21%) complicated with coronary arterial aneurysm (CAA) were referred as high risk group. Those who had no CAA were a low risk group. Stepwise discriminant analysis was performed to obtain risk factors of CAA based on clinical and early laboratory data. This yielded a classification accuracy of 75.4%. The combination of two parameters, white blood cell count and C-reactive protein, can be applied to early identify Kawasaki patients at high or low risk of CAA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Taiwan Provincial Tao-Yuan General Hospital, Tao-Yuan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Hwang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D012307:Risk Factors