KD is the main vasculitis affecting children < 5 years and the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. Its epidemiology is few reported in France. Even if IVIG is still the standard ...

Research from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago strongly suggests that Kawasaki disease is caused by a single respiratory virus ...

Kawasaki disease is a rare disease that causes inflammation and mostly affects young children. With prompt attention, it’s usually treatable.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has published an updated scientific statement on diagnosing and managing patients with Kawasaki disease (KD), as reported in Circulation. The statement summarizes ...

Scientists now have some clues to what's causing Kawasaki disease, a rare inflammatory disease that can affect very young children.

About 25 percent of Kawasaki disease patients who do not get treatment for the condition will develop aneurysms of the coronary arteries, which could lead to heart attacks and death even years later.

After experiencing a lull during the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians at Rady Children’s Hospital have been somewhat surprised at the number of young children diagnosed with Kawasaki disease in … ...

Sadeep Shrestha, Ph.D. (right), with a graduate student in the School of Public Health's Epidemiology and International Health Lab. Shrestha's new study used whole-genome sequencing to identify ...

Kawasaki disease is an illness that causes blood vessels to become inflamed, and is one of the leading causes of heart disease in kids.

A study led by ISGlobal shows that the incidence of Kawasaki disease in Japan increases when fine metal-laden aerosols are detected in the atmosphere. These aerosols come from the area known as ...

Keywords: Kawasaki disease, outcome, complete form, incomplete form, coronary artery aneurysm Citation: Bressieux-Degueldre S, Gradoux E, Di Bernardo S and Sekarski N (2023) Complete and incomplete ...