Macrophage activation syndrome in children with Kawasaki disease: an experience from a tertiary care hospital in northwest India.
Rakesh Kumar PilaniaAnkur Kumar JindalNameirakpam JohnsonAshwini PrithviPandiarajan VigneshDeepti SuriDeepti SuriAnju GuptaSurjit SinghPublished in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2021)
MAS is an unusual and underrecognized complication of KD. In our cohort of 950 patients with KD, 1.3% had developed MAS. KD with MAS is associated with an increased propensity towards development of coronary artery abnormalities.