In 1967, Kawasaki published a paper on the symptoms of 50 patients with the illness in the medical journal Arerugi. The disease was named “Acute febrile muco-cutaneous lymph node syndrome (MCLS ...

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a multisystemic vasculitis primarily affecting children <5 years. A review of RotaTeq (rotavirus vaccine live) clinical trial data revealed higher, though not ...

Background: The etiology of Kawasaki syndrome (KS) remains unknown despite 30 years of intensive search for an agent. Epidemiologic clues to a possible infectious etiology include the seasonal ...

We report the case of a 12-year-old Senegalese adolescent who presented with a 3-week history of persistent acute nephritic syndrome associated with symmetrical purpura of lower limbs, polyarthralgia ...

A recent Biomedical Research & Bio-Products AG phase 2 study showed that its TSST-1 vaccine is safe and effective against Staphylococcal-induced Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), offering a potential ...

During WWII, three Italian doctors at Rome’s Fatebenefratelli Hospital invented a fake, deadly disease—Syndrome K—to protect Jews from Nazi capture. Fearing infection, Nazis avoided the quarantined ...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to clarify whether cardiac sequelae due to Kawasaki disease are more frequent among recurrent cases than initial onset cases. STUDY DESIGN A cross sectional study ...

News reports suggest that Baselga succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that tends to appear late in life and advances quickly.

may even further develop into Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS), as highlighted by a case study published in the journal Cureus. The 45-year-old male was diagnosed with PV for 13 years before the disease ...

Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Sakarya University Medical Faculty, Sakarya, Türkiye Department of Genetics, Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, ...