Plasma fibronectin concentrations were measured in 41 patients suffering from mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MCLS, Kawasaki disease). Plasma fibronectin concentrations were decreased significantly in the early days of the disease, but increased gradually and reached significantly high concentrations by the fourth week of the disease. In nine of the 41 patients, coronary involvement was foun...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, affecting predominantly young children. Here, we describe an unusual case of a 75-year-old man with several unique features of incomplete KD. Healthcare professionals should therefore be aware of the importance of considering KD at any age, even among elderly individuals. This case also highlights the usefulness of the algorith...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with important cardiovascular complications which usually afflicts young children. We describe a 16-year-old woman who developed transient heart failure during the acute phase of incomplete KD. The diagnosis was based on the development of coronary aneurysms during heart failure and 2 criteria of the disease. Incomplete KD is a cause,...

Background: The bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumor accounts for 1-2% of all adult malignancies of the lung and 20-30% of all carcinoid tumors. Cushing’s syndrome is the result of chronic exposure to increased concentration of exogenous or endo-genus cortisol hormone, and it is generally associated with central obesity, metabolic syndrome, and hypertension. Treatment is based on decreasing cortiso...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an inflammatory vasculitis. KD is classified into two groups based on clinical characteristics criteria, namely classic and incomplete. Cerebral vascular abnormality, especially arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) is very rare and unusual in KD. Here, we report a 4-year-old boy who was referred to our tertiary pediatric center with abrupt right hemiparesis and aphasia. At ad...

Kawasaki Syndrome or the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) was first described in Japan in 1967 by Kawasaki.' Since then this syndrome has been recognised all over the world including Malaysia. This is a syndrome of unknown etiology. Its diagnosis is based entirely on clinical grounds and requires the presence of fever of at least five days duration plus four out of the five following cr...

Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) is a disease of unknown etiology characterized by vasculitis which may affect the coronary arteries. Young children are most commonly affected although the disease has been described in adults. Kawasaki disease (KD) was first described by Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967. Since then, more cases have been reported worldwide, the majority being fro...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is recognized as a leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. Although global in distribution, Japan records the highest incidence of KD in the world. Epidemiological reports from the two most populous countries in the world, namely China and India, indicate that KD is now being increasingly recognized. Whether this increased reporting is d...

We investigate the existence of a global attractor for a class of triangular cross diffusion systems in domains of any dimension. These systems includes the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto (SKT) model, which arises in population dynamics and has been studied in two dimensional domains. Our results apply to the (SKT) system when the dimension of the domain is at most 5.