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An Analysis of Risk Factors for Developing Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Group of Hepatitis C Patients with Stage 3 Fibrosis following Interferon Therapy

open access: yesCancer Informatics, 2008
The risk of Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is high in HCV-infected patients who have biochemically and histologically active chronic hepatitis. To observe the long prognosis of Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) patients with stage 3 fibrosis (F3), 55 CHC ...
Sabina Mahmood   +4 more
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Kawasaki Disease

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, 1991
SummaryIn this review, I have outlined the clinical picture, epidemiology, pathology, etiology, and current treatment and management of Kawasaki disease. The disease in question has unique features which cannot be classified into any of the categories of conventional pediatric diseases, and thus the elucidation of the etiology and mode of onset may ...
openaire   +8 more sources

Association of Familial History of Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Stroke, or Myocardial Infarction With Risk of Kawasaki Disease

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background There are few studies on the association with Kawasaki disease in children and the family’s history of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study was to identify the association of increased risks for Kawasaki disease in children with
Ji Hee Kwak   +5 more
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Hemophagocytosis in the Acute Phase of Fatal Kawasaki Disease in a 4 Month-Old Girl

open access: yesBalkan Medical Journal, 2016
Background: Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis predominately affecting coronary arteries. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis can complicate the course of Kawasaki disease.
Vehbi Doğan   +4 more
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Calculating the fraction of Kawasaki disease potentially attributable to seasonal pathogens: a time series analysisResearch in context

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Kawasaki disease is an acute, febrile, systemic vasculitis of children that primarily affects medium-sized blood vessels with a tropism for the coronary arteries. Although the etiological factors remain unknown, infections have been
Zaba Valtuille   +11 more
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Activin a suppresses peripheral CD8+ T lymphocyte activity in acute-phase Kawasaki disease

open access: yesBMC Immunology, 2021
Background Kawasaki disease is an autoimmune disease characterized by systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology and most commonly occurs in children under 5 years old.
Qian Wu   +5 more
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Landscape of intestinal microbiota in patients with IgA nephropathy, IgA vasculitis and Kawasaki disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
ObjectiveTo explore the common differential flora of IgAN, Kawasaki disease and IgA vasculitis by screening and analyzing the differential intestinal flora between the three disease groups of IgAN, Kawasaki disease and IgA vasculitis and their healthy ...
Xueli Hu   +10 more
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Lymphadenitis and Fever: First Presentation of Kawasaki Disease

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Research, 2017
Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis of infant and childhood period. Diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is based on clinical criteria including cervical lymphadenopathy.
Şule Gökçe   +4 more
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Kawasaki disease

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Rheumatology, 1990
Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of young children that is complicated by the development of myocarditis and coronary artery abnormalities. Recent studies indicate that the prevalence of cardiovascular abnormalities can be significantly reduced by treating patients during the first 10 days of illness with high-dose intravenous gammaglobulin ...
R, Sundel, D Y, Leung
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Atypical Kawasaki Disease in a 4 Years Old Child with Mumps

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Medical Association, 2018
Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile condition seen in children. However, it is also well recognized that some patients do not fulfill the classic diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease.
Prakash Banjade, Karan Subedi
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