Adult Kawasaki Disease in a European PatientAdult Kawasaki Disease in a European Patient
While Kawasaki disease is usually diagnosed in Asian children, this case demonstrates it should be considered in cases of prolonged fever without response to antibiotics, even in non-Asian adults. Journal of Medical Case Reports (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
Pegasus Therapeutics looks to Indiegogo for pediatric aneurysm device
Pegasus Therapeutics looks to crowd-fund for a benchtop model of its stent-like device to treat pediatric aneurysms caused by Kawasaki disease.
Boston startup Pegasus Therapeutics is using crowdfunding site Indiegogo to solicit money for the development of a stent-like device designed to treat pediatric patients with coronary artery aneurysms.
Indiegogo, Pegasus TherapeuticsNews Well, Cardiovascular, Funding Roundup, Pediatricsread more (Source: Mass Device)
Source: Mass Device - March 16, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Mark Hollmer Source Type: news
Child's rare disease journey inspires medical device startup
By the time Aubry Shackelford's five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease, the virus had already extensively damaged her heart.
The disease, which affects an estimated 4,000 US children under the age of five annually, causes inflammation in the walls of medium-sized arteries throughout the body.
For Shackelford's daughter, Allison Shachelford, and for potentially thousands of others who don't receive the right diagnosis in time, the disease left two giant aneurisms in her right… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - March 16, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Jessica Bartlett Source Type: news
What Causes Vesicular Exanthams?
Discussion
Vesicles are circumscribed, elevated, fluid-filled lesions < 1 cm on the skin. They contain serious exudates or a mixture of blood and serum. They last for a short time and either break spontaneously or evolve into bullae. They can be discrete (e.g. varicella or rickettsial disease), grouped (e.g. herpes), linear (e.g. rhus dermatitis) or irregular (e.g. coxsackie) in distribution.
Associated symptoms such as pruritus, fever, myalgias, coryza and cough, along with a history of potential contact can be helpful. Vesicular rashes that are associated with systemic findings such as fever are usually due to infe...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 2, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Revised Article-Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki disease is a rare childhood disease. It is a form of a condition called vasculitis. This condition involves inflammation of the blood vessels. (Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Topics)
Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Topics - October 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Recognizing and treating an atypical case of Kawasaki disease
It was a Saint Paddy’s Day that Jake and his mother, Nancy O’Connor, will never forget. While everyone else was sporting green, Jake’s skin and tongue started turning red, and the whites of his eyes eventually turned yellow. It was a medical problem that eventually led him to Boston Children’s Hospital where he was diagnosed with an atypical case of Kawasaki disease, a rare condition that can cause a rash, red eyes and mouth, and other inflammatory symptoms. Most importantly, Kawasaki disease can lead to serious complications of the heart, especially if not treated in time.
Difficult diagnosis
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Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 28, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tripp Underwood Tags: All posts Heart Center Jane Newburger Kawasaki disease Kawasaki Disease Program our patients' stories Source Type: news
Mysterious Illness May Be Carried by the Wind
Meteorological patterns suggest crop fungus may cause Kawasaki disease (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - May 19, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Possible cause and source of Kawasaki disease found
(University of California - San Diego) An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of California, San Diego, report that the likely causative agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) in Japan is a windborne agent originating from a source in northeast China. KD is a mysterious childhood ailment that can permanently damage coronary arteries. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 19, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Pregnancy risks for women with Kawasaki disease are manageable, provided doctors recognize them
In the first study of its type, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have looked at the health threat to pregnant women with a history of Kawasaki disease (KD), concluding that the risks are low with informed management and care.The findings are published in the online edition of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.KD is a childhood condition affecting the coronary arteries. It is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news
Kawasaki disease and pregnant women
(University of California - San Diego) In the first study of its type, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have looked at the health threat to pregnant women with a history of Kawasaki disease, concluding that the risks are low with informed management and care. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 6, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Role of infliximab examined in treating Kawasaki disease
A new study has looked at intensification of initial therapy for all children with Kawasaki Disease in order to prevent IVIG-resistance and associated coronary artery abnormalities by assessing the addition of the medication infliximab to current standard therapy. Kawasaki Disease is a severe childhood disease that many parents, even some doctors, mistake for an inconsequential viral infection. If not diagnosed or treated in time, it can lead to irreversible heart damage. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 24, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Molecular researchers find new key to inflammatory diseases
Biologists have discovered genetic material that may help to explain part of how our immune defense is triggered. Dubbing it THRIL, they say it could be targeted in the development of treatments against inflammatory diseases such as Kawasaki disease, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.The researchers have discovered a new molecule that forms when the immune response is triggered by pathogens - disease-causing bacteria and viruses. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
Discovering a 'THRIL' that correlates with severity of Kawasaki disease
(Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute) A newly identified RNA-protein complex controls TNF-alpha expression -- suggesting that it plays a key role in inflammatory immune responses. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 26, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Well: Think Like a Doctor: Eyes Solved
The cause of Kawasaki disease is still unknown, but the thinking these days is that it is an unusual immune response to a probable viral infection in children who have some kind of genetic predisposition to it. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By LISA SANDERS, M.D. Tags: Eyes and Eyesight Doctors Babies and Infants Think Like a Doctor medicine and health Featured Nursing and Nurses Source Type: news
Massachusetts hospital and Abwiz to develop diagnostic tool for KD
Boston Children's Hospital, a 395-bed hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts, has signed a partnership agreement with Abwiz Bio to develop a prototype test kit to diagnose Kawasaki Disease (KD). (Source: Hospital Management)
Source: Hospital Management - October 28, 2013 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
