[Treatment for Kawasaki disease--perspective]

Nihon Rinsho. 2008 Feb;66(2):360-4.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

In acute management for Kawasaki disease, recent studies are focused on treatment for patients who failed to respond to intravenous gamma globulin (IVGG) and high dose-aspirin. The addition of corticosteroids to IVGG and the use of TNF-alpha blockade are now under discussion. In long-term management, therapeutic angiogenesis is now applied for adult patients with ischemic hind limb or heart. It could be one of the therapeutic options for children and adolescents with Kawasaki disease and coronary artery abnormalities.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cell Transplantation
  • Humans
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / therapy*
  • Neovascularization, Physiologic