Kawasaki Disease Research Links

We are building what we wish to be the most comprehensive on line research resource relevant to our UK community, for clinicians. That’s an ambition we’ll keep working towards – adding to the information here as often as possible.

If there are key papers that you think it is important that we have links to, please do contact us and we will add them. If you are working on research into Kawasaki Disease and want to promote that here – or discuss it with us, please get in touch. If you’d like us to post information from your organisation on our website, links to relevant papers or articles, please contact us.

All Research Links

Coronary Artery Complication in Kawasaki Disease and the Importance of Early Intervention : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Chen S, Dong Y, Kiuchi MG, Wang J, Li R, Ling Z, Zhou T, Wang Z, Martinek M, Pürerfellner H, Liu S, Krucoff MW.

December 2016

A paper evaluating the effect of corticosteroid therapy in KD.

Early corticosteroid therapy associated with better outcomes in Kawasaki Disease

Anees Daud, MD and James England, MD

October 2016

The presented study is a meta-analysis of trials that compared adjuvant corticosteroid therapy in addition to IVIG/ASA to conventional therapy alone.

Pregnancy Management of Women with Coronary Artery Aneurysm following Kawasaki Disease During Childhood

Peers de Nieuwburgh M, Sluysmans T and Hubinont C

October 2016

A useful case report and discussion paper on pregnancy management of women with coronary artery aneurysm(s) following an episode of acute Kawasaki Disease in childhood. Kawasaki Disease is increasingly common and as incidence rises, the issues discussed in this paper will become increasingly relevant for clinicians caring for the growing number of patients who will […]

Dermatologic Manifestations of Kawasaki Disease

Elizabeth K Satter, MD, MPH Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist

June 2016

This paper explores the acute dermatologic manifestations of Kawasaki Disease

Breastfeeding and Risk of Kawasaki Disease: A Nationwide Longitudinal Survey in Japan

Yorifuji T, Tsukahara H, Doi H

May 2016

Aberrant immune responses are considered to play key roles in KD initiation and breastfeeding can mature immune system in infants. We examined the association between breastfeeding and the development of KD.

Kawasaki Disease Incidence in Children and Adolescents

Gillian C Hall, Louise E Tulloh and Robert M R Tulloh

February 2016

The aim of the paper was to determine the current UK incidence of Kawasaki Disease across childhood and adolescence

Sensorineural hearing loss in patients with Kawasaki Disease

Sun Young Park, MD, Young Hyun Kim, MD, Yeo Hyang Kim, MD, PhD, Myung Chul Hyun, MD, PhD, and Young Hwan Lee, MD, PhD

November 2015

This study indicates that sensorineural hearing loss in children with Kawasaki Disease might occur during treatment of the acute phase; this SNHL usually involves mild bilateral hearing loss and recovers naturally.

Cardiovascular status after Kawasaki Disease in the UK

V Shah,1 G Christov,2 T Mukasa,2 K S Brogan,1 A Wade,3 D Eleftheriou,1 M Levin,4 RM Tulloh,5 B Almeida,1 MJ Dillon,1 J Marek,2 N Klein,1 PA Brogan1

August 2015

This study examined circulating endothelial cells (CECs) years after Kawasaki Disease

FOAM, Medical Education

Dr Damian Roland, University Hospitals Leicester

February 2015

This fantastic clinical learning resource (see link below) has been shared with full consent of the patients family as obtained by the resource developers, ASKSNIFF who together with Dr Damian Roland (@Damian_Roland) have given Societi permission to provide a link here for clinicians visiting our site.

Safety and efficacy of warfarin plus aspirin combination therapy for giant coronary artery aneurysm secondary to Kawasaki Disease: a meta-analysis.

Su D, Wang K, Qin S, Pang Y.

August 2014

This study compared the safety and efficacy of warfarin plus aspirin versus aspirin alone