Japanese Kawasaki Disease Scoring Systems: Are they Applicable to the Iranian Population?

Mohammad Reza Edraki Hamid Mohammadi Nima MehdizadeganMojtaba GhorashiHamid AmoozgarMohammad BorzoueeGholamhossein AjamiKambiz KeshavarzElham DehghaniReza Bahrami

Published in: Archives of Iranian medicine (2020)

The Kobayashi, Egami, Sano, Nakano and Harada scores have limited usefulness in the Iranian population to predict high risk patients for coronary artery involvement or IVIG resistance; in our study, age under one year was a risk factor for IVIG resistance.

Keyphrases

coronary artery
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
pulmonary artery
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
pulmonary hypertension
patient reported
pulmonary arterial hypertension