Kawasaki disease is characterized by high fever, rash, cervical lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, oral mucous membrane changes and swelling of the extremities followed by skin sloughing. Despite >50 years of study, no bacterial, viral or other infectious agent has been consistently associated ...
A number of different viruses cause bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways), which affects children less than 1 year of age. Most commonly, it is caused by RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), but it can also be caused by influenza and other common viruses associated with upper respirat...
Kawasaki Disease Stanford T. Shulman D r Tomisaku Kawasaki of Tokyo described Kawasaki dis- ease (KD) in 1967 when he reported 50 children seen from 1961 to 1967 with a distinctive clinical illness characterized by fever, rash, conjunctival injection, enanthem, redness and swelling of the ...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute pediatric vasculitis mostly occurring in children under the age of five. Although its exact pathogenesis remains unknown, KD is hypothesized to be caused by infectious triggers, such as the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, that elicit a hyperinflammatory response in gen...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a pediatric vasculitis with coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) as its main complication. The diagnosis is based on the presence of pe
31 It is possible that vasculitis in KD is caused by either conventional antigens or by superantigens that trigger an immune response to endothelial cells, rather than by direct infection of the vessels.32 Superantigens are produced by several bacteria, notably certain strains of Staphylococcus ...
Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile illness and systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology that predominantly afflicts young children, causes coronary artery aneurysms and can result in long-term cardiovascular sequelae. Kawasaki disease is the leading ca
互联网 Coronary artery lesions caused by Kawasaki disease have main effect to its prognosis. 川崎病冠状动脉损害是影响其预后的主要因素. 互联网 Objective: In order to improve the diagnosis and treatment for Kawasaki disease. 目的: 提高对小儿川崎病诊断和治疗水平. 互联网 展开全部 ...
Aseptic meningitis caused by enteroviruses, as well as hepatitis A, may be a representative disease that reflects the effect of the public hygiene on the emergence or disappearance of a viral disease. Before the 1970s in Korea, hepatitis A might have affected most of the children until <15 ...
"Kawasaki disease may be caused by a virus, a pollutant, a microbial aerosol or all of the above," said Burns. "The fact that thepandemicaffected each age group differently supports the idea that there are multiple triggers of KD, and different children develop the disease after exposure to...