Procalcitonin Levels in Patients with Complete and Incomplete Kawasaki Disease

Table 3

Laboratory findings at diagnosis in patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) and controls.

	Complete KD; 𝑛=77	Incomplete KD; 𝑛=24	Control; 𝑛=41
White blood cell count (/mm^3)	14,689±4,848	14,774±4,534	11,520±5,517^∗,§
Neutrophil proportion (%)	65.6±15.7	59.8±16.5	59.0±17.7
Eosinophil proportion (%)	5.4±22.1	1.8±1.6	0.9±1.3
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	11.2±1.1	10.9±1.3	11.6±1.2
Hematocrit (%)	33.2±3.0	32.3±3.5	34.5±3.5^§
Platelets (10^3/mm^3)	341.4±100.4	365.7±129.8	275.7±89.4^∗,§
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (mm/h)	64.7±27.9	69.2±36.5	30.2±17.3^∗,§
C-reactive protein (mg/dL)	8.2±5.0	7.6±5.5	5.2±3.3^∗
Aspartate aminotransferase (U/L)	68.8±85.8	46.2±66.0	67.6±109.6
Alanine aminotransferase (U/L)	76.4±105.9	50.3±51.3	37.5±71.5
Total protein (g/dL)	6.5±0.7	6.3±0.6	6.7±0.4
Albumin (g/dL)	3.7±0.5	3.7±0.5	3.8±0.5
Sodium (mEq/L)	135.8±2.9	136.2±2.2	137.0±2.7
Potassium (mEq/L)	4.3±0.4	4.5±0.6^†	4.1±0.5^§
Chloride (mEq/L)	101.3±12.5	103.8±2.7	103.9±2.9
Creatine kinase (IU/L)	125.1±216.4	61.3±46.6	99.0±35.6
Creatine kinase-MB (ng/mL)	15.2±11.7	11.6±11.1	15.2±11.1
Myoglobin (ng/mL)	10.7±23.5	12.9±18.4	3.8±9.6
Troponin I (ng/mL)	0.013±0.010	0.013±0.013	0.003±0.005^∗
N-terminal pro BNP (pg/mL)	2,237.4±5043.4	1,391.5±2021.9	323.6±442.2^∗,§

KD: Kawasaki disease. Data are shown as means ± SD. ^†𝑃<0.05, complete Kawasaki versus incomplete Kawasaki disease; ^∗𝑃<0.05, complete Kawasaki disease versus control; ^§𝑃<0.05, incomplete Kawasaki disease versus control.