Stratified therapy for Kawasaki disease using a new scoring system to predict the response to a lower dose of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy.
Misa MatsuuraDaisuke SugawaraEishi MakitaYuka HirakuboKazuhito NonakaShinichiro YamashitaKo IchihashiPublished in: Cardiology in the young (2021)
The therapeutic response rate and the therapeutic effect of low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin in the low-risk group identified with our new scoring were satisfactory. Stratified therapies for patients with Kawasaki disease based on the scoring system may be useful.