A new two-dimensional echocardiographic technique was developed to detect peripheral right coronary aneurysms in Kawasaki disease. Because the main stem of the right coronary artery runs along the tricuspid valve ring and the posterior interventricular groove, these regions were examined for coronary aneurysms using the subcostal approach. Of 52 patients with Kawasaki disease, 14 right coronary...

Kawasaki disease is one of the major causes of acquired heart disease of children in developed countries. This study was performed to determine the frequency of cardiac sequelae of kawasaki disease and related risk factors based on a descriptive cross-sectional study between 1994-1999 in the pediatric ward of AI-Zahra Hospital of Isfahan. Out of 45 patients, 29 were male (64.4%) and 16 wer...

Several authors suggested that the clinical characteristics of incomplete presentation of Kawasaki disease are similar to those of complete presentation and that the 2 forms of presentation are not separate entities. Based on this suggestion, a diagnosis of incomplete Kawasaki disease in analogy to the findings of complete presentation is reasonable. Currently, the diagnosis of incomplete Kawas...

ABBREVIATIONS IQR: interquartile range IVIG: intravenous immunoglobulin KD: Kawasaki disease PHIS: Pediatric Health Information System rKD: refractory Kawasaki disease sKD: standard Kawasaki disease www.hospitalpediatrics.org doi:10.1542/hpeds.2011-0011-2 Dr Ghelani was responsible for the study design, data collection, interpretation of data, statistical analysis, and manuscript writing; Mr Pa...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of Kawasaki disease in older children and to evaluate its clinical presentation, time to diagnosis, and outcome in comparison with younger patients with the disease. METHODOLOGY A retrospective analysis of all patients discharged with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease at a pediatric tertiary care hospital over a 12-year period. RESULTS A total of 133 pat...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease, initially called mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome was reported 35 years ago as a new inflammatory disease in infants and children and is characterized by a variety of symptoms and signs resulted from systemic vasculitis. Although the etiology of the disease remains unknown, its serious coronary complications have been proved to cause ischemic heart disease in child...

BACKGROUND Cardiac lesions, such as coronary dilatation, aneurysms, narrowing, myocardial infarction, and valvular lesions, sometimes occur in Kawasaki disease, but most studies have only evaluated cardiac lesions in the later phase of the disease. This study was undertaken to clarify the related factors between cardiac lesions and laboratory data in the initial phase of Kawasaki disease. MET...

To clarify the relationship between changes in photochemical oxidants’ (Ox) concentrations and their precursors Kawasaki, a series of analyses were conducted using data on Ox, precursors, nitrogen oxides (NOx) volatile organic compounds (VOCs), meteorology that had been monitored throughout city Kawasaki for 30 years from 1990 to 2019. The trend air temperature was upward, wind speed downward, ...

BACKGROUND Remodeling of the coronary artery lesions in Kawasaki disease has been observed in longitudinal angiographic studies. However, mechanisms of such remodeling have not yet been elucidated. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined formalin-fixed specimens of the coronary arteries immunohistochemically by using antibodies against vascular growth factors (GFs) and their receptors in 7 children w...