Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis predominantly affecting young children. The disease is associated with cardiac complications such as cardiac aneurysm and thrombosis in a significant proportion of cases. Salicylates are commonly used in KD because of their antiinflammatory activity. In general, the salicylate use is limited in other childhood conditions because of potential risk o...

We experienced a case of a 3-year-old boy who presented signs and symptoms of Kawasaki syndrome. Two blood culture sets were processed by the hospital microbiology laboratory using a standard blood culturing system. The anaerobic bottles gave a positive result at day 3 after inoculation. The biochemical profiles produced by the RapID ANA II System showed that the organism was Clostridium barati...

We report the case of a six-year-old boy who presented with cardiogenic shock due to Kawasaki disease (KD). He was misdiagnosed at first as septic shock. After careful examination, he was diagnosed as KD complicated with acute coronary syndrome, which leads to cardiogenic shock. Cardiogenic shock is often neglected as a complication of KD, and it tends to be misdiagnosed. We hereby call attenti...

Kawasaki disease (KD) patients are known to be at increased risk for coronary artery lesions. We present evidence of another possible complication associated with KD: macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). In this case, a patient with KD and prolonged fever developed MAS. This case is of particular interest because of the late age of onset and recurrent nature of KD as well as the complication o...

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...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki Syndrome (KS) is an uncommon childhood disease with unknown etiology. It has been suggested that rotavirus infection may play a causative role in the development of KS. METHODS To examine potential temporal associations between KS and rotavirus infection, seasonal patterns of KS- and rotavirus-associated hospitalizations among children in California and New York during 200...

Makoto KOBAYASHI, Kiyotaka KAWASAKI, Katsuyoshi TATENUMA, Masanori HARA, Masao MATSUYAMA, Toshiyuki FUJII, Hajimu YAMANA, Yasuhisa OYA and Kenji OKUNO Radioscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaken Co. Ltd., 1044, Hori, Mito-city, Ibaraki, 310-0903, Japan Hydrogen Isotope Research Center, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan Research Reactor Institute: Kyo...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and epidemiology of Kawasaki syndrome (KS) in Hawaii. METHODS Retrospective analysis of the State Inpatient Database for Hawaii residents hospitalized with KS during 1996 through 2001. RESULTS During 1996 through 2001, 267 persons younger than 18 years of age living in Hawaii were hospitalized with KS; 226 (84.6%) were younger than 5 years of age. The ave...

Introduction: To assess the rate of cervical lymph node involvement in patients with supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with no lymph node in clinical assessments and radiological studies. Materials and Methods: Fifty-six patients who underwent elective dissection of the cervical lymph node of the second through fourth level were enrolled, and pathologic evaluation of the dissected lymp...

Kawasaki syndrome and RSV infection are common illnesses that afflict infants and young children. Recent studies demonstrate that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment significantly reduces the clinical severity of these illnesses. The purpose of the current review will be initially to examine mechanisms of disease pathogenesis in KS and RSV infection. This will be followed by a discussio...