Patient characteristics.
The demographic characteristics of KD patients and HC were summarized in
Table 1. As expected, the WBC, lymphocyte and Lymphocytes counts and the
levels of serum ESR and CRP in the patients were significantly higher
than that in the HC. Furthermore, the concentrations of serum NT-proBNP
in KD patients with CAL were significantly higher than that in KD group
with NCAL. In contrast, there was no significant difference in the
distribution in the gender and age, and the levels of serum IgG, IgM,
IgA, C3 and C4 among the different groups of patients and HCs.