http://www.medindia.net/healthnews/Kawasaki-Disease-news.asp Medindia largest health website in india. en-us Copyright 2013. All Rights Reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:05:23 GMT http://www.medindia.net/news/urine-test-may-help-diagnose-kawasaki-disease-111785-1.htm A set of proteins detected in urine by researchers may prove to be the first biomarkers for Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki disease, an uncommon but increasingly prevalent disease which causes inflammation of blood vessels that can lead to enlarged coronary arteries and even heart attacks in some children. If validated in more patients with Kawasaki disease, the markers could make the disease easier to diagnose and give doctors an opportunity to start treatment earlier. The discovery was reported ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/urine-test-may-help-diagnose-kawasaki-disease-111785-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/it-still-may-be-kawasaki-disease-if-there-is-high-fever-and-evidence-of-a-virus-109686-1.htm When diagnosing a child who has a high fever and whose tests show evidence of adenovirus clinicians should take caution and not assume the virus is responsible for Kawasaki-like symptoms. Adenovirus detection is not uncommon among children with Kawasaki disease, according to a new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital appearing in iClinical Infectious Diseases/i. Kawasaki disease is a rare but serious condition in children that involves inflammation of the blood vessels, specifically ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/it-still-may-be-kawasaki-disease-if-there-is-high-fever-and-evidence-of-a-virus-109686-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/kawasaki-disease-in-childhood-and-raised-risk-of-adult-heart-disease-are-linked-study-104371-1.htm Kawasaki Disease, a childhood ailment that leads to inflammation of blood vessels all over the body, with early-onset and hastened atherosclerosis a prime cause of heart disease in adults, are linked. In a study published in the August 2012 print edition of IArteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology,/I an American Heart Association peer-reviewed medical journal, a team of researchers showed how Kawasaki Disease in young mice predisposed them to develop accelerated atherosclerosis, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/kawasaki-disease-in-childhood-and-raised-risk-of-adult-heart-disease-are-linked-study-104371-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Gene-Behind-Kawasaki-Disease-Identified-93644-1.htm Gene FCGR2A could be behind the Kawasaki disease, say researchers with the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). The scientists attached to the Infectious Diseasesled a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a worldwide collaboration onthe disease.Kawasaki disease is an autoimmune disease in which patient's blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed. It affects mostly children, causing prolonged fever of usually more than five days. It is unresponsive to antibiotics and anti-pyrectics, such as paracetomol and aspirin....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Gene-Behind-Kawasaki-Disease-Identified-93644-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Link-Between-Kawasaki-Disease-and-Wind-Currents-93217-1.htm Kawasaki Disease is linked to large-scale wind currents, says study led by an international team of scientists organized by Jane C. Burns, MD, professor and chief, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego. "Our findings suggest an environmental trigger for Kawasaki disease that could be wind-borne," Burns said. Signs of KD include prolonged fever associated ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Link-Between-Kawasaki-Disease-and-Wind-Currents-93217-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Filipino-Children-In-California-Vulnerable-To-Kawasaki-Disease-84678-1.htm The Filipino children in the San Diego county in California seem to be more vulnerable than others to the Kawasaki disease (KD), a new study shows. The disease inflames the medium-sized arteries and affects many organs in the body including the skin, mucous membranes, lymph nodes, blood vessel walls, and most importantly, the heart. Without timely treatment, a child will take longer to recover and 25% of untreated children may develop heart disease. While children of all ethnicities can contract ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Filipino-Children-In-California-Vulnerable-To-Kawasaki-Disease-84678-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Kawasaki-Disease-Genes-Uncovered-46162-1.htm A team of international researchers has shed new light on Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder that is said to have been suffered by Hollywood actor John Travolta's son Jett, who died last weekend. Jett, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two and was reportedly diagnosed with Kawasaki disease as a toddler, had been found unconscious in a bathroom in the family's holiday home in the Bahamas. He had later been taken to Rand Memorial Hospital, Freeport, where he was pronounced dead on January 2....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Kawasaki-Disease-Genes-Uncovered-46162-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Kawasaki-Disease-Unlikely-to-Have-Killed-Travoltas-Son-45950-1.htm Doctors say that the childhood illness that Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta's son Jett had been suffering from, scientifically called Kawasaki disease, could not be blamed for his death because it was unlikely to cause the boy's reported seizure. "Seizures are not part of Kawasaki disease," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Stanford Shulman, a specialist in the disease at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, as saying. "If a teenager had a seizure and died, ...]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Kawasaki-Disease-Unlikely-to-Have-Killed-Travoltas-Son-45950-1.htm http://www.medindia.net/news/Genetic-Variation-Linked-to-Kawasaki-Disease-Identified-30770-1.htm Researchers have made a significant advancement in identifying a new genetic variation that affects a child's risk of getting Kawasaki disease (KD), an illness characterized by acute inflammation of the arteries throughout the body. The researchers from Japan's RIKEN SNP Research Centre along with a team at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), discovered a genetic variation that influences immune activation and the response to standard treatment. They also found that it involves a risk of developing in blood clots and heart attack....]]> http://www.medindia.net/news/Genetic-Variation-Linked-to-Kawasaki-Disease-Identified-30770-1.htm