Background: 24-h urine collection is regarded as the "gold standard" for monitoring sodium intake at the population level, but ensuring high quality urine samples is difficult to achieve. The Kawasaki, International Study of Sodium, Potassium, and Blood Pressure (INTERSALT) and Tanaka methods have been used to estimate 24-h urinary sodium excretion from spot urine samples in some countries, but...

Kawasaki disease in the British Isles was surveyed by an active reporting scheme, based on all cases reported to the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit that were diagnosed between 1 January and 31 December 1990. The study was prompted by the need to investigate the high case fatality rate of Kawasaki disease of 2% observed in 1988. One hundred and sixty three patients were identified of whom ...

Coronary arteries in six children who had Kawasaki disease but lacked coronary arterial aneurysms were examined. Four children died of myocarditis at the acute stage, and two children died of bacterial sepsis or as a result of an occurrence during cineangiography at the healed stage. Twenty-one children without Kawasaki disease were examined as controls. The six children with Kawasaki disease h...

PURPOSE Kawasaki disease involves acute febrile systemic vasculitis that can cause a variety of symptoms by affecting various organs. Here, we aimed to evaluate the prevalence, causes, and prognosis of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) occurring in children with Kawasaki disease. METHODS Patients who were diagnosed with Kawasaki disease and received inpatient treatment in the Pediatrics Depar...

INTRODUCTION Early diagnosis and treatment of Kawasaki disease as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood, may significantly improve the prognosis. Diagnosing infantile Kawasaki (younger than a year) is difficult because of obscure symptoms; at the same time they are at the higher risk of coronary abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION We report three infants with prolonged (mo...

Incidence and clinical features of kawasaki disease in Catalonia (Spain) Judith Sanchez-Manubens, Jordi Anton, Fredy Prada, Rosa Bou, Estibaliz Iglesias, Joan Calzada-Hernandez, Vicenç Torrente-Segarra, Samuel Hernandez, Silvia Ricart, Marc Tobeña, Anna Fernandez, Montserrat Gispert-Sauch, Aina Sanchez, Mariona Bonet, Neus Rius, Sonia Corral, Olga Calavia, Kawasaki Disease in Catalonia Working ...

Thirteen serum samples from nine children with Kawasaki disease and 23 control samples gave negative results on screening for antibodies to hog cholera virus, border disease of sheep, bovine diarrhoea virus, and equine arteritis virus. The sera from two children with Kawasaki disease were cytotoxic; a possible link with cytotoxin from Propionibacterium acnes is considered.

Prospective analysis of Kawasaki disease cases in Catalonia (Spain) from March 2013 to March 2014 Judith Sanchez-Manubens, Jordi Anton, Fredy Prada, Estibaliz Iglesias, Joan Calzada-Hernandez, Samuel Hernandez, Vicenç Torrente-Segarra, Silvia Ricart, Sergi Borlan, Clara Gimenez Roca, Marc Tobeña, Socorro Uriz, Anna Fernandez, Maria Mendez, Alvaro Diaz, Olga Calavia, Kawasaki Disease in Cataloni...

Sera from 38 patients with Kawasaki disease were tested for immunofluorescent antibodies to Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Rochalimaea henselae, and R. quintana Oklahoma. Only 2.5% of the patients tested positive for E. chaffeensis, and 5% were positive for R. henselae and R. quintana Oklahoma. Our data suggest that Ehrlichia and Rochalimaea spp. do not play a unique role in the etiology of Kawasaki di...

Kawasaki disease is very rare in Western Europe. The disease may involve coronary arteries. A 2-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease had had seizure-like symptoms. Further evaluation revealed recurrent myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Due to extraordinary extension of the coronary disease, myocardial revascularization was not feasible and the toddler underwent successful h...