INTRODUCTION Kawasaki disease is an acute, self-limiting childhood systemic vasculitis with unknown etiology. Because there is no diagnostic test for Kawasaki disease, the diagnosis is based on clinical criteria. An important clinical sign that is not included in the classical clinical criteria for Kawasaki disease is a reaction at the Bacille Calmette-Guérin inoculation site that are present i...

conclusions disseminated bcg infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of infants and young children with fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and history of bcg vaccination. the pcr method has a high positivity rate and can serve as a useful tool for the rapid and specific identification of m. bovis bcg substrain infection. results from the total of 34 children hospit...

BACKGROUND The aims of the present study were to confirm the consumption coagulopathy of disseminated intravascular coagulation with the fibrinolytic phenotype at an early phase of trauma and to test the hypothesis that thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor, neutrophil elastase, and plasmin contribute to the increased fibrinolysis of this type of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Fu...

INTRODUCTION Disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis is a rare disease. Almost all disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis cases described in the literature are associated with a gynecological disorder or a mass in the abdominal cavity. Disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis with only chronic constipation has not been reported in the English literature. We present a case of a patient with dissemi...

Background. Rapid diagnosis and treatment for disseminated tuberculosis (TB) are important prognostic factors for patients with disseminated TB. Recently, IFNgamma releasing assay (IGRA) shows promising results for diagnosis of TB. However, little is known about the usefulness of these assays for diagnosing disseminated TB. We therefore evaluated their usefulness compared with traditional tests...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Prediction of postoperative excessive blood loss is useful for management of Intensive Care Unit after cardiac surgery. The aim of present study was to examine the effectiveness of International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis scoring system in patients with cardiac surgery. METHOD After obtaining approval from the institutional review board, the medical records ...

I read with interest the well-illustrated report of disseminated cysticercosis in a Japanese international traveler by Kobayashi and others in the AJTMH. 1 I wish to compliment the authors on the accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment of this patient because previous experience suggests that clinical diagnosis of disseminated cysticercosis is seldom achieved even in endemic regions given the r...