title: An Adolescent with Kawasaki Disease.
abstract: Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of unknown etiology that predominantly affects children <5 years of age. The incidence and the severity of myocarditis in this disease is variable and depends upon the stage of the disease, acute or chronic. Acute-stage Kawasaki disease shows relatively high incidence of myocarditis, but almost all cases are clinically mild. We describe teenage boy presenting with atypical/incomplete manifestations of Kawasaki disease and developing fulminant myocarditis within a week of illness resulting in death. The case underscores the importance of suspecting Kawasaki disease in a young child presenting with features of myocardial ischemia.
authors: Departments of *Histopathology, $Cardiology; #Pediatric Allergy-immunology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, and ^Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. India. Correspondence to: Dr Kirti Gupta, Additional Professor, Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. kirtigupta10@yahoo.co.in.
authors: Kirti
authors: K
authors: Gupta
authors: Manojkumar
authors: M
authors: Rohit
authors: Avinash
authors: A
authors: Sharma
authors: Ritambhra
authors: R
authors: Nada
authors: Sanjay
authors: S
authors: Jain
authors: Subhash
authors: S
authors: Varma
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome; D009205:Myocarditis