Shuya Kaneko, Masaki Shimizu, Asami Shimbo, Hitoshi Irabu, Koji Yokoyama, Kenji Furuno, Takayuki Tanaka, Kazuyuki Ueno, Shuhei Fujita, Naomi Iwata, Junya Fujimura, Keiji Akamine, Mao Mizuta, Yasuo Nakagishi, Toshinori Minato, Kenichi Watanabe, Anna Kobayashi, Takuya Endo, Katsuhiko Tabata, Masaaki Mori, Tomohiro Morio
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the clinical significance of serum cytokine profiles for differentiating between Kawasaki disease (KD) and its mimickers. METHODS: Patients with KD, including complete KD, KD shock syndrome (KDSS), and KD with macrophage activation syndrome (KD-MAS), and its mimickers, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, toxic shock syndrome, and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection, were enrolled. Serum levels of interleukin (IL)-6, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor type II (sTNF-RII), IL-10, IL-18, and chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 9 (CXCL9) were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and compared them with clinical manifestations...
June 23, 2023: Cytokine