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Authors' response to ‘Aspirin dose for treatment of Kawasaki disease’
  1. Despina Eleftheriou1,
  2. Michael Levin2,
  3. Delane Shingadia3,
  4. Robert Tulloh4,
  5. Nigel Klein1,
  6. Paul Brogan1
  1. 1 Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street, London
  2. 2 Paediatric Infectious Diseases Group, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London
  3. 3 Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
  4. 4 Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Despina Eleftheriou, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1E1NH, UK; d.eleftheriou{at}ucl.ac.uk

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We read with interest the letter by Dr Krasseman1 regarding anti-inflammatory doses of aspirin used in the acute phase of Kawasaki disease (KD). Indeed, higher doses of aspirin are currently used in the USA (80–100 mg/kg/day), while in Japan a lower dose of 30–50 mg/kg/day is advocated.2–6 Similarly, in the UK, the latter modest dose has been recommended since 20027 ,8 for the acute phase of KD as a number of previous studies have suggested this lower dose is equally as effective, and may be associated with less toxicity.2 ,4 …

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