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S2 Ep16: Kawasaki Disease with Recrudescent Guest Dr. Tremoulet

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The Risk Factors for Kawasaki Disease

A lot of people have looked at the correlation between coronary artery aneurysms and what labs actually lead to predicting what's gonna happen. Thrombocytopenia is also a harbinger of bad disease, Hyponatremia is another thing, super high sedrate and CRP. The other thing that's super key is age. If you were less than six months old and you have Kawasaki disease, even if you're treated with IVIG in the first 10 days of illness, you have a 50% chance of having an aneurysm. Even if I diagnosed you early and I treated you correctly. So there's something about those children.

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