TY - JOUR
T1 - Paediatric rheumatology
T2 - Corticosteroids as primary therapy in Kawasaki disease
AU - Reindel, Rebecca
AU - Shulman, Stanford T
PY - 2012/7/1
Y1 - 2012/7/1
N2 - Coronary artery aneurysms affect a substantial proportion of patients with Kawasaki disease, especially when standard therapy fails. Adjunctive primary corticosteroid treatment reduces inflammation and might reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease in a subset of patients at high risk of this comorbidity, but reliably identifying such individuals is a challenge.
AB - Coronary artery aneurysms affect a substantial proportion of patients with Kawasaki disease, especially when standard therapy fails. Adjunctive primary corticosteroid treatment reduces inflammation and might reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease in a subset of patients at high risk of this comorbidity, but reliably identifying such individuals is a challenge.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.65
DO - 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.65
M3 - Article
C2 - 22549249
AN - SCOPUS:84863441065
SN - 1759-4790
VL - 8
SP - 373
EP - 374
JO - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
JF - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
IS - 7
ER -