High-Dose Aspirin Is Associated with Anemia and Does Not Confer Benefit to Disease Outcomes in Kawasaki Disease

Ho-Chang Kuo; Mao-Hung Lo; Kai-Sheng Hsieh; Mindy Ming-Huey Guo; Ying-Hsien Huang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144603

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High-Dose Aspirin Is Associated with Anemia and Does Not Confer Benefit to Disease Outcomes in Kawasaki Disease

Ho-Chang Kuo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Chang Kuo, Mao-Hung Lo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
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Mao-Hung Lo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Chang Kuo, Mao-Hung Lo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
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Kai-Sheng Hsieh,

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
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Mindy Ming-Huey Guo,

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
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Ying-Hsien Huang

* E-mail: yhhuang123@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301
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High-Dose Aspirin Is Associated with Anemia and Does Not Confer Benefit to Disease Outcomes in Kawasaki Disease

Ho-Chang Kuo,
Mao-Hung Lo,
Kai-Sheng Hsieh,
Mindy Ming-Huey Guo,
Ying-Hsien Huang

Published: December 10, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144603

About the Authors

Ho-Chang Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Chang Kuo, Mao-Hung Lo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301, Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 83301

Mao-Hung Lo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ho-Chang Kuo, Mao-Hung Lo

Kai-Sheng Hsieh

Mindy Ming-Huey Guo

Ying-Hsien Huang

* E-mail: yhhuang123@yahoo.com.tw

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCK MHL KSH YHH. Performed the experiments: MMHG. Analyzed the data: HCK MHL KSH YHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCK MHL KSH MMHG YHH. Wrote the paper: HCK MHL KSH YHH.

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