Kawasaki atypical, description of a case

Abstract

Kawasaki disease is a systemic, self-limiting vasculitis of unknown etiology; its diagnosis is based mainly on clinical criteria, in which atypical or incomplete cases have been described because they do not meet the basic criteria of the disease. It is important to identify that every pediatric patient who presents to a health service with a fever of more than five days without another symptom in particular, one should think of Kawasaki disease as one of the differential diagnoses; since at this stage of life are those who have a higher risk of coronary heart disease. In the present article we describe the clinical case of a three-year-old patient, diagnosed as atypical Kawasaki disease, which was given as treatment the administration of Immunoglobulin, which is aimed at reducing inflammation in the wall of the coronary arteries, the prevention of coronary thrombosis and therefore death.