Steroid pulse therapy for children with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy-resistant Kawasaki disease: a prospective study.

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Published in Pediatr Cardiol on November 27, 2012

Authors

Masayuki Teraguchi1, Hirotaro Ogino, Ken Yoshimura, Shoichiro Taniuchi, Minoru Kino, Hitoshi Okazaki, Kazunari Kaneko

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Kansai Medical University, 2-3-1 Shin-machi, Hirakatashi, Osaka, 573-1191, Japan. teraguchi@nakano-kodomo.or.jp

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