Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T154 |
0-208 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Verdoni et al. published the first Italian experience on 10 patients admitted to their hospital for Kawasaki-like disease from February 18th to April 20th, 2020 (during the peak of COVID19 epidemic in Italy). |
T155 |
209-356 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Very nicely, the authors compared these children (group 2) to the historical cohort of KD patients seen in the last 5 years (group 1, 19 patients). |
T156 |
357-459 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Half of the children in group 2 presented with classic KD, while half were diagnosed as incomplete KD. |
T157 |
460-618 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Half of the patients showed hypotension and signs of hypoperfusion at onset, and were interpreted as KSS, and half had signs of myocarditis at echocardiogram. |
T158 |
619-671 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Pro-BNP was above normal values in all the patients. |
T159 |
672-780 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Half of the patients satisfied the PRINTO laboratory criteria for Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) [73]. |
T160 |
781-809 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Two patients developed CAAs. |
T161 |
810-1004 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Patients in group 2 displayed older age, a higher frequency of gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms, meningeal signs, myocarditis, shock syndrome, and MAS criteria as compared with group 1. |
T162 |
1005-1191 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 was positive in 2 patients only, 8 patients had positive IgG while 3 patients had positive IgM (all of whom were positive also for IgG) for SARS-CoV-2. |
T163 |
1192-1287 |
Sentence |
denotes |
All patients from group 2 were treated with IVIG and steroids, with good clinical outcome [74]. |