Facial nerve palsy in a thirteen-year-old male youth with Kawasaki disease

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2002 May;21(5):442-3. doi: 10.1097/00006454-200205000-00024.

Abstract

A 13-year-old male youth was hospitalized with Kawasaki disease. In the course of the disease he developed a facial nerve palsy and an aneurysm of the right coronary artery. After treatment with immunoglobulins both complications disappeared within 10 days and 1 month, respectively.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aneurysm / etiology
  • Coronary Artery Disease / etiology
  • Facial Nerve Diseases / drug therapy
  • Facial Nerve Diseases / etiology*
  • Facial Paralysis / drug therapy
  • Facial Paralysis / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use*
  • Male
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / complications*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Immunoglobulins, Intravenous