TY - JOUR T1 - DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF MEAN PEROXIDASE INDEX IN EARLY KAWASAKI DISEASE TT - JF - MJIRI JO - MJIRI VL - 14 IS - 2 UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-872-en.html Y1 - 2000 SP - 107 EP - 110 KW - Acute phase KW - Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome KW - Myeloperoxidase deficiency. N2 - The charts of 27 patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) admitted to Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz from January 1991 to October 1998 were reviewed to identify the results of mean peroxidase index (MPXI) values, a measure of neutrophil staining intensity, obtained by the Technicon HI analyzer (Technicon Instruments Corp., Tarrytown, NY) within the first 10 days of the illness 2 separate groups of patients were assessed as control subjects: 27 disease control (DC) children with fever plus one other KD criterion and 27 laboratory control (LC) subjects with nonfebrile disorders interpreting also as a normal reference population. Compared with control groups, patients with KD had lower quantities of MPXI [(Mean±SD, -11.71±5.87 in KD group) vs. (1.53±4.30 p M3 ER -