Kawasaki disease is a disease of unknown etiology that most frequently affects infants and children under 5 years of age. Inflammation occurs in medium-sized muscular arteries throughout the body including the coronary artery, being classified as a systemic vasculitis syndrome. Histopathological investigations of Kawasaki disease have mainly focused on the coronary artery because it is directly...

Surgical revascularization for coronary artery lesions secondary to Kawasaki disease has been rarely reported in adult patients. We reported an adult case with few coronary risk factors but with multiple coronary artery aneurysms and obstructive lesions presumably secondary to Kawasaki disease who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with multiple arterial grafts. The postoperative ...

Kawasaki disease is the most common cause of multisystem vasculitis in childhood. Kawasaki disease has been reported throughout the world and affects children of all ethnicity. Coronary artery damage from Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world. Diagnostic tests and prognostic markers are lacking, and questions remain unanswered in our ...

introduction: kawasaki syndrome is an acute febrile vasculitis with multiorgan involvment in children. the objective of this study was assessment of demographic, clinical and laboratory data of kawasaki patients in yazd. methods: in a descriptive-analytic study, the hospital records of patients treated for kawasaki disease in all hospitals with pediatric wards between march 1996 and march 2006 ...

objectives the current study aimed to estimate the prevalence of ihd in the families of children with kd. patients and methods sixty-one children with kawasaki disease were admitted from december 21, 2004 to january 21, 2008to mofid children hospital (from one month to thirteen-year old) and 50 patients entered the study. subjects were divided into the severe (24subjects) and non-severe (26 sub...

Direct percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is now the standard first-line therapy for all patients. However, few studies on PCI in young patients with AMI and Kawasaki disease have been published. Herein, we report a case of AMI in a 26-year-old man with a history of Kawasaki disease. Emergency coronary angiography showed a thrombotic occlusion of the ...

A 3 yr old boy presented with abdominal pain, fever and red jelly stools. Intussusception was diagnosed and effectively reduced with air insufflation. However, despite an improvement in his clinical condition, the child remained febrile and miserable; 5 days later he developed characteristic signs of Kawasaki disease and was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin and high dose aspirin with goo...

Kawasaki disease (KD) was first described in Japan in 1967 by Tomisaku Kawasaki [1]. It is an acute, systemic, self-limited vasculitis, whose targets are medium diameter vessels in each organ and apparatus. It is a vasculitis of unknown aetiology, probably multifactorial, that occurs predominantly in infants and young children. The most important complications are coronary arteries aneurysms or...

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Tokyo 169-0073, Kinki University, Osaka 589-8511, Health Research Institute of the City of Kawasaki, Kawasaki 210-0834, Kanagawa Prefectural Public Health Laboratory, Yokohama 241-0815, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki 216-8511, Ehime Prefectural Institute of Public Heal...

Correspondence to: Dr I K Maconochie, Department of Paediatric Accident and Emergency, St Mary’s Hospital, London W2 1NY, UK; i.maconochie@ imperial.ac.uk _________________________ D r Tomisaku Kawasaki published a case series of 50 children in 1967 who were febrile and all had a rash, non-exudative conjunctivitis, erythema of the palms and soles of the feet, and cervical lymphadenopathy. This ...