Refractory Kawasaki Disease Presenting With Erythema at Bacille Calmette-Guérin Inoculation Site: A Paediatric Case Report

  • Thadchanamoorthy V
  • Dayasiri K
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Abstract

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an autoimmune disease that generally affects children under the age of five years. It has a variety of clinical manifestations which may be either specific or nonspecific. Intravenous immunoglobulin and aspirin are the mainstays of treatment. There are unusual circumstances where patients are resistant to conventional treatment. We report a one-year-old girl who presented with a 12-day history of fever in association with erythema at the site of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) scar. She did not respond successfully to conventional treatment although she was diagnosed to have Kawasaki disease. Eventually, she responded to intravenous methylprednisolone and was diagnosed as having refractory Kawasaki disease.

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Thadchanamoorthy, V., & Dayasiri, K. (2020). Refractory Kawasaki Disease Presenting With Erythema at Bacille Calmette-Guérin Inoculation Site: A Paediatric Case Report. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10928

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