A few weeks after the peak of the global 2019 novel coronavirus disease pandemic, cases of shock, multisystem inflammation and severe myocarditis have occurred in children and adolescents, generating ...

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic vasculitis that is rare and underdiagnosed in adults given its atypical presentation, especially in non-Asian patients. Incomplete KD is characterized ...

Background: Comparisons between Kawasaki disease (KD) and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) have been critiqued, with suggestions that KD Shock Syndrome (KDSS) patients may be a ...

Kawasaki disease is rare, but cases are climbing in the United States. Here are the important things to know about Kawasaki disease.

PHILADELPHIA — In children with acute Kawasaki disease where fever symptoms have resolved, continued daily monitoring for 1 to 2 weeks is strongly recommended, according to new guidelines ...

The strong recommendations include prompt treatment of incomplete Kawasaki disease, aspirin therapy, and obtaining an echocardiogram in the setting of shock.

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a childhood vasculitis of unknown etiology. The present study describes a case of KD shock syndrome that occurred in an infant (age, 16 months) following 7 days of high fever ...

Researchers look at the use of intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of Kawasaki disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare reaction to SARS-CoV-2.

Last April, clinicians in London reported a cluster of eight children in 10 days who developed hyperinflammatory shock with multiorgan involvement, which they described in The Lancet as being ...