Nikki Gil revealed her daughter Maddie's battle with Kawasaki disease, which is a rare condition that mainly affects children ...

While the etiology of Kawasaki disease (KD) is unknown, a role for infectious agents, including common skin organisms, has been proposed. We report 2 cases of KD associated with burn injury. Case ...

Dr. Jane C. Burns has studied Kawasaki disease for four decades. It took only four months for COVID-19 to turn her life’s work upside down. Unusual numbers of children and teenagers living in ...

Kawasaki disease and COVID-19. Kids who get COVID-19 can also end up with a condition called multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). The symptoms of MIS-C such as fever and rash look a lot like ...

Kawasaki disease, which is marked by symptoms including rash and "strawberry tongue" — or a swollen and bumpy tongue — is a potentially fatal diagnosis now affecting children who have or have ...

Kawasaki disease is still a poorly understood childhood illness. It is thought to occur when an unidentified pathogen enters the upper respiratory tract and causes a dramatic immune response in ...

"Kawasaki is not a very common disease with an incidence of less than 25 cases for every 100,000 children," Dr. Sheriff said.There's at least 3,000 cases diagnosed each year in the United States ...

Kawasaki disease causes blood vessels that carry oxygen to the heart to swell and become inflamed. The condition mainly affects kids under 5. "It has been the leading cause of acquired heart ...

The link between Kawasaki disease and Covid-19 is unclear, but health care professionals have reassured parents that the risk of children becoming severely ill with the virus remains low.

British doctors raised alarms about Kawasaki disease after a number of children diagnosed with COVID-19 died despite having no underlying health issues, according to a U.K. official.

The standard treatment for Kawasaki disease is IVIG and aspirin. Although most cases are resolved after a single dose of IVIG, 10-20% of children are IVIG-resistant and have a higher chance of ...