ALLMedicine™ Kawasaki Disease Center

Feb 25th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease is a kind of self-limited systemic vasculitis involving middle and small arteries, which usually occurs in children under 5 years old. Excessive inflammatory response caused by activation of monocytes is one of the important mecha...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology and most commonly occurs in children under 5 years old. Previous studies have found that the over-activation of lymphocytes is an important mechani...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - To describe the contemporary experience of Kawasaki Disease (KD) in a tertiary paediatric hospital. This was a retrospective analysis of admissions with suspected/confirmed KD to John Hunter Children's Hospital from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a self-limiting and acute systemic vasculitis of childhood that leads to coronary artery abnormality in about 25% of untreated cases. KD is extremely rare in neonates. The purpose of this paper is to explore the clinical f...

Feb 15th, 2021 - Suspected Kawasaki disease diagnosed in the adulthood. Severe sequelae in the coronary arteries.|2021|Lorenzo-Hernández M,Marcos-Garcés V,López-Fornás FJ,Valero E,Bodí V,|

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,

Feb 25th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease is a kind of self-limited systemic vasculitis involving middle and small arteries, which usually occurs in children under 5 years old. Excessive inflammatory response caused by activation of monocytes is one of the important mecha...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Kawasaki disease is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology and most commonly occurs in children under 5 years old. Previous studies have found that the over-activation of lymphocytes is an important mechani...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - To describe the contemporary experience of Kawasaki Disease (KD) in a tertiary paediatric hospital. This was a retrospective analysis of admissions with suspected/confirmed KD to John Hunter Children's Hospital from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a self-limiting and acute systemic vasculitis of childhood that leads to coronary artery abnormality in about 25% of untreated cases. KD is extremely rare in neonates. The purpose of this paper is to explore the clinical f...

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...

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...