ALLMedicine™ Kawasaki Disease Center

May 8th, 2021 - The study investigated the safety of 4-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccination (4CMenB) in routine care. 4CMenB exposure and seizures, febrile seizures and Kawasaki disease were identified from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) databas...

May 6th, 2021 - Coronavirus and Kawasaki Disease.|2021||

May 5th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease among children in developed countries, in which the resulting coronary artery (CA) abnormalities cause myocardial ischemia, infarction, and death. Prompt diagnosis was essent...

Apr 27th, 2021 - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) emerged in April 2020 in communities with high COVID-19 rates. This new condition is heterogenous but resembles Kawasaki disease (KD), a well-known but poorly understood and clinically heteroge...

Apr 26th, 2021 - Some patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) have siblings who developed the same disease. Using a large-scale epidemiologic dataset, the present study aimed to determine the clinical characteristics of this population. We analyzed 89,725 patients dia...

Jul 9th, 2020 - JCS/JSCS 2020 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Cardiovascular Sequelae in Kawasaki Disease.|2020|Fukazawa R,Kobayashi J,Ayusawa M,Hamada H,Miura M,|standards,diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,standards,diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,

May 6th, 2020 - South Thames Retrieval Service in London, UK, provides paediatric intensive care support and retrieval to 2 million children in South East England. During a period of 10 days in mid-April, 2020, we noted an unprecedented cluster of eight children ...

Mar 30th, 2017 - Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of childhood that leads to coronary artery aneurysms in ≈25% of untreated cases. It has been reported worldwide and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. To revis...

Sep 22nd, 2014 - Guidelines for diagnosis and management of cardiovascular sequelae in Kawasaki disease (JCS 2013). Digest version.|2014| ,|diagnosis,etiology,genetics,metabolism,therapy,complications,diagnosis,genetics,metabolism,pathology,therapy,

Aug 20th, 2010 - Guidelines for diagnosis and management of cardiovascular sequelae in Kawasaki disease (JCS 2008)--digest version.|2010| ,|diagnosis,therapy,complications,epidemiology,

May 8th, 2021 - The study investigated the safety of 4-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccination (4CMenB) in routine care. 4CMenB exposure and seizures, febrile seizures and Kawasaki disease were identified from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) databas...

May 6th, 2021 - Coronavirus and Kawasaki Disease.|2021||

May 5th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common cause of acquired heart disease among children in developed countries, in which the resulting coronary artery (CA) abnormalities cause myocardial ischemia, infarction, and death. Prompt diagnosis was essent...

Apr 27th, 2021 - Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) emerged in April 2020 in communities with high COVID-19 rates. This new condition is heterogenous but resembles Kawasaki disease (KD), a well-known but poorly understood and clinically heteroge...

Apr 26th, 2021 - Some patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) have siblings who developed the same disease. Using a large-scale epidemiologic dataset, the present study aimed to determine the clinical characteristics of this population. We analyzed 89,725 patients dia...

Feb 18th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Christopher J. Chiu, MD: Welcome back. We are The Cribsiders, the pediatric medicine podcast that interviews leading experts in the field to bring you clinical pearls and practice-changing knowledge, an...

Nov 12th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with Kawasaki disease remain at an increased risk for heart problems more than 10 years after they leave the hospital, according to a new study. "The results justify additional follow up and surveillance for ca...

Aug 24th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) shows that the immune system is profoundly altered during acute illness but gradually returns back to normal. MIS-C is distinct from both COVID-19 and...

Aug 20th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Addition of corticosteroids to initial intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment appears to reduce the rate of coronary-artery abnormalities in high-risk patients with Kawasaki disease, according to a nationwide surve...

Aug 17th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Weeks after a mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, otherwise healthy children may develop an inflammatory syndrome with combinations of card...