Abstract
To study the clinical characteristics of pediatric Kawasaki disease complicating mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. Retrospective analysis was conducted on 11 children who had been diagnosed with Kawasaki disease with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. The 11 cases presented with varying degrees of fever, conjunctival congestion, skin rashes, lymphadenectasis, distal extremities lesions, heart and lung lesions. 8 of them were standartly treated with azithromycin, while 3 of them were treatad with azithromycin and erythromycin. 2 patients with pleural effusion complicated by lobar pneumonia consolidation were treated with gamma globulin combined aspirin. All of the 11 patients were healed. Infections are common at the diagonosis of KD. Reasonable examination and antibiotics is useful to cure KD with MPP.
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