Open AccessCoronary Lesions and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Kawasaki Disease
Author(s) -
Yutaro Tomobe,
Osamu Nomura,
Yoshihiko Morikawa,
Nobuaki Inoue,
Hiroshi Sakakibara,
Masaru Miura
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jma journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2433-3298
pISSN - 2433-328X
DOI - 10.31662/jmaj.2018-0013
Subject(s) - medicine , systemic inflammatory response syndrome , odds ratio , kawasaki disease , confidence interval , acute coronary syndrome , incidence (geometry) , gastroenterology , retrospective cohort study , risk factor , artery , surgery , myocardial infarction , physics , optics , sepsis
In patients with Kawasaki disease (KD), who later develop coronary artery lesions (CALs), several inflammatory cytokines are reportedly higher than in patients without CALs. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is used as a clinical index of hypercytokinemia. The objective of this study was to determine whether SIRS is related to CAL formation.