to review children with kawasaki disease admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht from 1999 to 2007. we reviewed retrospectively 64 children with kawasaki disease between 1999-2007 admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht. frequency distributions of variants including age, sex, season, clinical and laboratory manifestations, response to treatment and complications of the patients were abstr...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute vasculitis syndrome of unknown etiology. it occurs in infants and young children, affecting mainly small and medium-sized arteries, particularly the coronary arteries. generalized microvasculitis occurs in the first 10 days, and the inflammation persists in the walls of medium and small arteries, especially the coronary arteries, and changes to coronary artery ...

introduction kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute systemic vasculitis, of unknown etiology, that mainly affects infants and young children. although originally thought to be a benign illness, kd may prove fatal, especially if the diagnosis is delayed due to a nonclassic presentation. case presentation here, we present the case of a 4-year-old girl with a history of prolonged fever. her physical ex...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an inflammatory multiorgan disease of unknown etiology. the most dramatic organ involved is the heart. there were a few studies about cardiac involvement and sterile pyuria. this study guides to determine if sterile pyuria is associated with coronary artery aneurysm (caa) in kd patients and to consider it as a predicting factor for coronary artery involvement. forty sev...

background kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute febrile vasculitis of early childhood and the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. the most important complication of kd is coronary artery aneurysm that may lead to thrombosis and myocardial infarction, occurring in 25% of untreated cases. fortunately, timely treatment decreases it to 2 - 4%. there is no specific test for the diagnos...

background kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute multisystem vascular syndrome of unknown etiology that is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children of developed counties. objectives we aimed to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics and clinical manifestations of kd in children residing in the southwest of iran. patients and methods in this retrospective study, we reviewed the ...

the charts of 27 patients with kawasaki disease (kd) admitted to nemazee hospital in shiraz from january 1991 to october 1998 were reviewed to identify the results of mean peroxidase index (mpxi) values, a measure of neutrophil staining intensity, obtained by the technicon hi analyzer (technicon instruments corp., tarrytown, ny) within the first 10 days of the illness 2 separate groups of patie...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an inflammatory vasculitis. kd is classified into two groups based on clinical characteristics criteria, namely classic and incomplete. cerebral vascular abnormality, especially arterial ischemic stroke (ais) is very rare and unusual in kd. here, we report a 4-year-old boy who was referred to our tertiary pediatric center with abrupt right hemiparesis and aphasia. at ad...

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...