Early corticosteroid therapy associated with better outcomes in Kawasaki Disease

Anees Daud, MD and James England, MD

October 2016

The presented study is a meta-analysis of trials that compared adjuvant corticos

teroid therapy in addition to IVIG/ASA to conventional therapy alone.

Trials that had steroids as part of initial therapy and those that used steroids as r

escue therapy for IVIG-resistant disease were included.

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