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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on May 4, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(7):857-858; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep076
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A case of Yersinia enterocolitica mimicking Kawasaki disease

Saria M. Hassan1 and Benjamin R. Doolittle1

1Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

Correspondence to: Saria M. Hassan, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 8030, New Haven, CT 06520-8086, USA. E-mail: saria.hassan@yale.edu

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SIR, Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in the USA. Despite its description over four decades ago, the diagnosis remains a clinical one with many complex algorithms for atypical presentations [1]. Given its consequences when untreated, it is a serious diagnosis when entertained. Nevertheless, many infectious and inflammatory conditions are known to cause a clinical syndrome similar to KD. We describe here the first reported case of Yersinia . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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