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A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia

Year 2017, Volume: 48 Issue: 1, 28 - 31, 10.03.2017
https://doi.org/10.16948/zktipb.237240

Abstract

Introduction: Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis with unknown etiology that is common among children. Characteristic findings are fever, polymorphic rash, conjunctivitis, oral mucosa and extremity changes and cervical lymphadenopathy. The most important cause of morbidity and mortality is cardiac involvement. At the early stages of the disease, upper airway tract symptoms like coryza and cough are common. But lung parenchyme involvement as pneumonia is extremely rare.

Case: A 16-months-old boy was admitted to our clinic due to prolonged fever and unresolving pneumonia. Consolidation was observed on the chest X-ray. On the follow up, the child was diagnosed as having Kawasaki disease.  Clinical and laboratory remission could not be achieved by antibiotic treatment. Clinical and chest X-ray findings were normalized after one dose intravenous immunoglobulin infusion (2 gr/kg).

Conclusion: In patients with prolonged fever, unresolving pneumonia with antibiotic treatment and high acute phase reactants, Kawasaki disease should be in differential diagnosis. 

İyileşmeyen Pnömoni İle Başvuran Bir Atipik Kawasaki Hastalığı Olgusu

Year 2017, Volume: 48 Issue: 1, 28 - 31, 10.03.2017
https://doi.org/10.16948/zktipb.237240

Abstract

Giriş: Kawasaki hastalığı çocukluk çağında sık gözlenen, nedeni bilinmeyen sistemik bir vaskülittir. Karakteristik bulguları ateş, polimorfik döküntü, konjonktivit, oral mukoza ve ekstremite değişiklikleri ve servikal lenfadenopatidir. En önemli morbidite ve mortalite nedeni kardiyak tutulumdur. Başlangıç döneminde öksürük ve burun akıntısı ile bulgu veren üst solunum yolu tutulumu göreceli olarak sık görülmesine karşın pnömoni şeklinde akciğer tutulumu ile seyretmesi son derece nadirdir.

Olgu: On altı aylık erkek hasta uzamış ateş ve iyileşmeyen pnömoni nedeniyle kliniğimize sevk edildi. Akciğer grafisinde konsolidasyon saptanan olguda takipte Kawasaki hastalığı tanısı konuldu. Antibiyotik tedavisi ile klinik ve laboratuar bulgularında düzelme olmayan olguda tek doz intravenöz immünoglobulin (2 gr/kg) uygulanması sonucu klinik ve röntgen bulgularında düzelme gözlendi.

Sonuç: Uzamış ateş, antibiyotik tedavisi ile düzelmeyen pnömoni ve belirgin akut faz yanıtı olan olgularda Kawasaki hastalığı ayırıcı tanıda düşünülmelidir.

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Primary Language English
Subjects Health Care Administration
Journal Section Case Report
Publication Date March 10, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017 Volume: 48 Issue: 1

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APA A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia. (2017). Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni, 48(1), 28-31. https://doi.org/10.16948/zktipb.237240
AMA A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni. March 2017;48(1):28-31. doi:10.16948/zktipb.237240
Chicago “A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting With Unresolving Pneumonia”. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni 48, no. 1 (March 2017): 28-31. https://doi.org/10.16948/zktipb.237240.
EndNote (March 1, 2017) A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni 48 1 28–31.
IEEE “A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia”, Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 28–31, 2017, doi: 10.16948/zktipb.237240.
ISNAD “A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting With Unresolving Pneumonia”. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni 48/1 (March 2017), 28-31. https://doi.org/10.16948/zktipb.237240.
JAMA A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Unresolving Pneumonia. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni. 2017;48:28–31.
MLA “A Case of Atypical Kawasaki Disease Presenting With Unresolving Pneumonia”. Zeynep Kamil Tıp Bülteni, vol. 48, no. 1, 2017, pp. 28-31, doi:10.16948/zktipb.237240.
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