The aim of this study was to determine risk factors for coronary lesions, the type of heart lesion present, and long-term outcome in Kawasaki disease. We studied 150 children, aged 3 months to 9.5 years, who met the criteria for a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. Of the 18% who were diagnosed with heart disease, 100% had coronary artery abnormalities, 11.1% had pancarditis, and 3.7%, mitral insuf...

Kawasaki disease is typically a self-limiting condition that is a common cause of pediatric vasculitis [1] and the leading cause of pediatric acquired heart disease in developed countries [2]. The disease most frequently occurs in children aged between 6 months and 5 years [3] and is associated with coronary artery aneurysms in up to 25% of untreated cases [4]. There is currently no laboratory ...

Kawasaki disease, also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome or infantile polyarteritis nodosa is an acute febrile vasculitis of unknown etiology with a predilection for coronary arteries and potential for aneurysm formation. In Incomplete Kawasaki disease, children with fever lack the sufficient number of criteria to fulfill the epidemiologic case definition and are diagnosed when coronar...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis. It is one of the most common acquired heart diseases in children. Its important acute complication is coronary artery aneurysm. Although most of these aneurysms resolved overtime but some never did. Coronary artery stenosis and myocardial insufficiency or infarction are late complications. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and catheter in...

Kawasaki disease is one of the most common vasculidities of childhood. It is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the US.1 Although its course is typically self-limited, it is important that the clinician have a high degree of suspicion for its presence in light of its potential cardiac complications. It should be included in the differential diagnosis for any child with p...

We conducted this study to compare the incidence of coronary artery dilatation in children with Incomplete and Classical Kawasaki disease, diagnosed as per AHA criteria. Subjects were included on a retrospective review of records (2002-2007); those with a discharge diagnosis of Kawasaki disease were enrolled. A total of 29 patients were identified (3.1 per 1000 pediatric admissions), out of whi...

Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitic illness of childhood associated with significant morbidity and mortality. A cellular based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to demonstrate the presence of antiendothelial cell antibodies in sera from children with Kawasaki disease. Twenty one of 32 patients with Kawasaki disease had raised IgM antibody titres and four had raised IgG anti...

x∈Λ px where px are prescribed and uniformly bounded above and below away from 0 and 1. A comparison inequality is proved between the Kawasaki and Bernoulli-Laplace Dirichlet forms. Together with a recent result of Caputo on the gap of the Bernoulli-Laplace model, this proves a spectral gap of the correct order L on cubes of side length L for the Kawasaki dynamics. The two block estimate of hyd...

Intestinal pseudoobstruction is an uncommon but important manifestation of Kawasaki disease. Its occurrence at the onset or during the course of the disease may confuse the clinical picture and cause delay in diagnosis and treatment. This delay may be responsible for the high rate of coronary artery abnormalities that have been reported in patients with this complication. We suggest that Kawasa...

Shin-ichiro KAWASAKI*, Yuichiro WAKASHIMA, Akira SUZUKI, Kiwamu SUE, Yukiya HAKUTA, and Kunio ARAI a Research Center for Compact Chemical Process, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nigatake 4-2-1, Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 983-8551, JAPAN. Fax +81-22-237-5224, E-mail [email protected] b Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of...