Kawasaki Disease
Asymptomatic Kawasaki Disease in a 3-Month-Old Infant
... Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the United ...heart disease, or sudden ...the disease emphasizes the spectrum of presentation and the ...
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Treatment Options for Refractory Kawasaki Disease
... of Kawasaki is based on recognition of temporal features of clinical features presented during the ...of Kawasaki consist of fever lasting for at least five days along with any four among these 5 clinical ...
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Circulating adipokines are associated with Kawasaki disease
... with Kawasaki disease (49 boys and 31 girls) in hospital from August 2015 to March 2017 and exclude other severe diseases were selected as KD ...primary disease associated with tumors, hematological ...
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Increase expression of CD177 in Kawasaki disease
... Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common acute coronary vasculitis disease to occur in children. Its incidence has been attributed to the combined effects of infection, genetics, and ...
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Recognition of a Kawasaki Disease Shock Syndrome
... with Kawasaki disease who were treated at a single institution during a 4-year ...defined Kawasaki disease shock syndrome on the basis of systolic hypotension for age, a sustained decrease in ...
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Urine Mercury Levels in Kawasaki Disease
... The possibility that Kawasaki disease (MLNS) might represent heavy metal poisoning was origi- nally questioned by Dr Donald Cheek of Australia in 1975’#{176}Dr Kawasaki replied that he b[r] ...
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National Surveillance of Kawasaki Disease
... Information about 261 cases of Kawasaki disease (KD) was reported to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) between July 1976 and July 1978.. KD occurred at all times of the year in young,[r] ...
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Recent Advances in Kawasaki Disease
... Kawasaki disease (KD) is characterized with acute systemic vasculitis, occurs predominantly in children between 6 months to 5 years of ...this disease recover well and the disease is ...
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Cardiac Transplantation for Kawasaki Disease
... Myocardial infarction was documented by the presence of laboratory and/or electrocardiographic changes in nine patients (all but patient 3). The exact timing of the infarctions are difficult to determine because of the ...
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Systemic Artery Aneurysms and Kawasaki Disease
... and Kawasaki Disease Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; Council on ...
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Kawasaki Disease in the Older Child
... Results. A total of 133 patients were included in this study; 7.5% were 9 years of age or older at the time of illness. Patients were grouped by age: infants included children age 1 to 8 years of age and children 9 years ...
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Kawasaki disease in Sicily: clinical description and markers of disease severity
... Our center is one of the three major pediatric hospitals in Sicily were children affected by Kawasaki disease are treated. However we have not yet the epidemiological data about the real incidence of ...
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Kawasaki disease: a review with emphasis on cardiovascular complications
... Abstract Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis that is currently the leading cause of acquired heart disease in childhood in the United ...predict disease progression and ...
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Kawasaki disease: an epidemiological study in central Italy
... Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis with an acute and self-limited ...of Kawasaki disease in the years 2008 – 2013 in children aged < 14 years in the Italian regions ...
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Facial Nerve Palsy Complicating Kawasaki Disease
... of Kawasaki disease, the most common cause of pediatric acquired heart disease, is difficult and often delayed for children whose age falls outside the typical range of 6 months to 5 years, ...
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Epidemiologic Pictures of Kawasaki Disease in Japan: From the Nationwide Incidence Survey in 1991 and 1992
... Epidemiologic Pictures of Kawasaki Disease in Japan: From the Nationwide Incidence. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/95/4/475[r] ...
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Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in 2 Male African American Children After Kawasaki Disease
... ABSTRACT. Two children with insulin-dependent di- abetes mellitus (IDDM) presented with diabetic keto- acidosis within 4 months of being diagnosed with Ka- wasaki disease (KD). Both patients were African American ...
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Hospitalizations for Kawasaki Disease Among Children in the United States, 1988–1997
... Conclusions. KD affects mainly children under 5 years of age, with a peak incidence in children 1 to 2 years of age. The incidence of KD was rising over the study period. There is a male predominance. Although KD occurs ...
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Kawasaki disease associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae
... Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an illness of unknown etiology that mostly occurs in children under 5 years of age and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease all over the ...
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Nationwide Survey on Kawasaki Disease in Japan
... revision (the fourth) for the current survey.3 Up to the third revision, when five of the six principal symptoms were observed, the patient was said to have Kawasaki disease, but in the [r] ...
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