OBJECTIVE The association between Kawasaki disease and autism has rarely been studied in Asian populations. By using a nationwide Taiwanese population-based claims database, we tested the hypothesis that Kawasaki disease may increase the risk of autism in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study cohort consisted of patients who had received the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (ICD-9-CM: 446.1) b...

We investigated whether urinary neopterin concentrations respond to the pathological conditions (especially coronary artery dilatation) of Kawasaki syndrome. All of 29 children with Kawasaki syndrome had very high urinary neopterin concentrations. Increased urinary neopterin concentrations coincided with fever and with monocytosis in peripheral blood. The urinary neopterin excretion peaking wit...

Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis, primarily encountered in children. Its clinical presentation is well known, and coronary artery abnormalities are classical complications. Shock is not a common form of presentation of the disease. We report a case who presented with shock due to Kawasaki disease in accordance with the recently defined 'Kawasaki disease shock syndrome'. In pediatric in...

INTRODUCTION Kawasaki disease is regarded as systemic vasculitis. Many experts believe that not only coronary arteries but also other small arteries are involved during the period of systemic inflammation. However, the evidence to support this point view is limited. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a one-year-four-month-old Taiwanese girl whose patent ductus arteriosus was incidentally...

Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of early childhood. Its incidence varies among different ethnic groups with higher rates among Asians. In this case series, we presented four cases of Kawasaki disease with incomplete or atypical presentations in Egyptian children. Two cases presented with meningitis, which is not a criteria for the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. The other two cases prese...

The clinical, pathological, and immunological similarities between Kawasaki disease and the staphylococcal and streptococcal toxic shock syndromes suggest that a superantigen toxin may be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. The V beta repertoire of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 21 children with Kawasaki disease, 28 children with other illnesses, and 22 healthy controls were e...

Kawasaki disease is believed to be the commonest vasculitis of medium vessels in Asian children. However, the majority of children with Kawasaki disease continue to remain undiagnosed perhaps because of the lack of awareness amongst pediatricians. The clinical features of Kawasaki disease can be confused with other common conditions such as Scarlet fever, Stevens Johnson syndrome, Measles fever...

It has been 28 years since Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki originally described mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, now known as Kawasaki disease.! First thought to be a benign self-limited febrile illness, Kawasaki disease today is recognized as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in the United States. It is almost exclusively an illness of young children about 80 percent of patie...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether left ventricular (LV) myocardial deformation indices can detect subclinical abnormalities in Kawasaki disease convalescence. We hypothesized that subclinical myocardial abnormalities due to inflammation represent an early manifestation of the disease that persists in convalescence. BACKGROUND Myocardial inflammation has been descr...