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 corticosteroid 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 rescue therapy for IVIG-resistant disease were included.