Abstract
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a medium vessel vasculitis which presents as an acute febrile illness affecting young children with 80% affecting less than 5 years and with slight male preponderance. KD remains purely a clinical diagnosis rests on the recognition of a typical temporal sequence of a constellation of clinical features. The main concern about the KD is development of coronary artery abnormalities (CAA) in 15-25% of affected individuals. The diagnosis of infantile KD can be particularly difficult due to obscure clinical manifestations and presentation is usually incomplete or atypical. Adenovirus poses the greatest diagnostic dilemma which presents with many of the features consistent with the atypical KD. We are illustrating a case of infant with features temporally correlating with Kawasaki disease but some atypical features like purulent conjunctivitis.
Keywords: Kawasaki disease, Atypical, Purulent conjunctivitis, Mucocutaneus lymph node syndrome
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Corresponding Author
Priyanka Sharma
Department of OBG, Bhandari Hospital Hamirpur (H.P), India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i6.89
