ESPE Abstracts

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute inflammatory disorder, associated with systemic vasculitis including coronary artery aneurysms (CAA). Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) can resolve inflammation. However, about 20% patients show resistant to IVIG treatment and some of the cases required additional treatments. Recently, IVIG plus adjuvant glucocorticoid hormones (GC) has been shown to be an effective therapy for these patients, su...

Background: Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia is a rare, lifelong, but benign hereditary disorder due to its mild, often asymptomatic phenotype. Here we present a rare case of neonatal hypocalciuric hypercalcemia complicated with arrhythmia.Case: A healthy male infant weighing 2636g was delivered by spontaneous vaginal delivery at term. The pregnancy had progressed normally, but neonatal arrhythmia was found by physic...