[Relapse on Kawasaki disease]
OBJECTIVES: to draw the pediatrician's attention to the characteristics, the diagnostic criteria and the possibility of relapse of the acute phase of the Kawasaki disease with its possible complications. METHOD: case report of a patient registered at Hospital Universitário de Brasília under medical record number 400682 and review of the literature. RESULTS: Case report of a boy who relapsed the clinical aspects of the disease, after disappearance of signs and symptoms of the acute phase, and who complicated with aneurysm of the left coronary artery. CONCLUSION: the diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease is based on clinical findings. The pediatrician should be always alert to the diagnostic criteria since this is a disorder that may lead to heart complications following the acute phase or after its recurrence. These cardiac complications may lead to death in 2% of the patients.
Magalhães
C M
CM
Hospital Universitário de Brasília (HUB), Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Melo
R C
RC