Background Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a vasculitis with multi-organ involvementof unknown etiology; it is the most common cause of pediatric-heart diseases in developed countries. Treatment with Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) prevents coronary artery lesions; although there are some IVIG-resistant cases, combination therapy with corticosteroids and IVIG is one of the recommendations for treatm...

A 20-months-old infant was admitted with prolonged fever, bilateral non-purulent conjunctivitis, strawberry tongue, lip cracking and maculopapular rash. Left branch coronary aneurysm formation was detected in Color-Doppler echocardiography. The diagnosis was Kawasaki disease. After 6 weeks, he had alopecia totalis. Although, alopecia areata has been seen in Kawasaki disease, but alopecia totali...

kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis of children. among gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease jaundice occurs uncommonly. we present a 23 month boy with icter and clinical hepatitis and final diagnosis of kawasaki disease.

During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, children are less affected than adults, and underlying conditions and older age are associated with severe disease. Following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, outbreaks of cases with Kawasaki-like disease and a few others with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to COVID-19 (MIS-C) have been reported. Here, we report a two-y...

Background: Purulent cervical lymphadenitis presents with different manifestations such as fever and Erythema of the skin at the site of infection. The appropriate treatment for purulent lymphadenitis are antibiotics. If there is no response to antibiotic treatment, other causes should be considered, including uncommon infectious causes (for example Mycobacterium infections or fungal infections...

background: respiratory virus infections in children are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. methods : a total of 897 clinical specimens were collected from february 2007 to january 2008 and transported to the na­tional influenza center. two hundred and two samples belonged to children under the age of six from 897 specimens, de­scribed above, were selected. then they were tes...

introduction: kawasaki syndrome is an acute febrile vasculitis with multiorgan involvment in children. the objective of this study was assessment of demographic, clinical and laboratory data of kawasaki patients in yazd. methods: in a descriptive-analytic study, the hospital records of patients treated for kawasaki disease in all hospitals with pediatric wards between march 1996 and march 2006 ...

inflammation of blood vessels is a characteristic feature of kawasaki disease. neutrophils play a key role in the inflammatory responses where movement of neutrophils toward the site of inflammation depends on cd11b/cd18 expression as adhesion molecules on these cells. the purpose of this study was to investigate cd11b/cd18 expression in patients with kawasaki disease upon diagnosis and after t...

introduction: kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis that usually involves children younger than 5 years old. etiology is unknown and since there is no labaratory test to diagnose kawasaki disease, the major diagnosis is based on clinical findings .the objective of this study was to determine incidence, complications, time of treatment and clinical manifestations in children with kawasaki di...