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Why the other options are wrong
Case Complete
What this deck covers
Kawasaki Disease in twelve clinical teaching cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong.
The 12 cases, in order
- Recognition
- The five features
- The febrile infant
- What argues against it
- The laboratory
- Imaging the coronaries
- First-line treatment
- The other drug
- When the fever returns
- The complication
- Planning follow-up
- The late sign
Diagnoses and management options tested
Across the twelve cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Kawasaki disease, Scarlet fever, Adenovirus infection, Small blisters across the palms and soles, Cracked red lips and a strawberry tongue, Thick discharge from both eyes on waking, Occult urinary tract infection, Incomplete Kawasaki disease, Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, A prolonged viral exanthem, Redness and swelling at the BCG scar, Sterile pyuria on urine microscopy, Irritability out of proportion to the illness, Thick yellow discharge from both eyes, A falling platelet count, A normal C-reactive protein from day 2, A single study at six weeks, Daily scanning until the fever settles, Oral prednisolone 2 mg/kg/day, Intravenous ceftriaxone pending cultures, Aspirin alone at anti-inflammatory dose, High dose for six weeks, then stop, Pericardial effusion, Myocarditis with impaired function, Mitral regurgitation, A giant coronary aneurysm.
Clinical pearls from this deck
- Five days of fever plus a wretched child with four features is Kawasaki disease until proven otherwise – and the proof never arrives from the laboratory.
- Inflamed, not broken. Ulcers, blisters and pus are the three findings that take you away from this diagnosis.
The twelve worked cases in this deck, with the images and the full explanation of every option, are part of Pediatric Case Review membership. See what is included.
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