Abstracts from the Seventh International Kawasaki Disease Symposium: Hakone, Japan December 4-7 2001

Atypical Kawasaki Disease- Experience in Hong Kong

• Dora ML Wong
• YM Ng
• R Sung

Severe Myocarditis in Children with Kawasaki Disease

• Susanne M Benseler
• Deborah Levy
• Rae SM Yeung

Recent Advances in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Ischemic Heart Disease

• Tetsu Yamaguchi

Kawasaki Disease in Hong Kong, 1994-2000 Surveillance

• Yin Ming Ng
• Rita Sung
• Man Ching Yam

Useful Method of Low-dose Dobutamine Quantitative Gated SPECT in Kawasaki Disease with Severe Coronary Arterial Lesion

• Kensuke Karasawa
• Kazuo Taniguti
• Kensuke Harada

Follow up Findings of Dipyridamole Stress ^99mTc-tetrofosmin Scintigraphy in Patients with Kawasaki Disease

• Tsuyoshi Fukuda
• Thoru Shinohara
• Yuko Tanihira

Adrenomedullin mRNA is Highly Expressed in PBMC of Acute Kawasaki Syndrome

• Ichiro Nomura
• Jun Abe
• Donald YM Leung

A National Survey of Pediatric Cardiologists Regarding Clinical Management of Kawasaki Disease in the USA

• Iman Kahwaji
• David Connuck
• Nagib Dahdah

Association of FC Γ Receptor Polymorphisms in Kawasaki Disease

• Maarten H Biezeveld
• Irene M Kuipers
• Taco W Kuijpers

Is Perivascular Echo Brightness a Reliable Marker of Coronary Arteritis in Acute Kawasaki Syndrome?

• Masato Takahashi
• Wilbert H Mason
• John C Wood

Oxygen Radicals Activity as a Predictor of Coronary Artery Lesions in Kawasaki Disease

• Yuichi Ootsuka
• Satoru Okazaki
• Hiroyuki Moriuchi

Epidemiology of Kawasaki Disease in a Large Urban Center in the United States Over a 21 Year Period

• Wilbert H Mason
• Masato Takahashi

Potentially Reversible Brachial Vasodilatation and Impaired Flow-mediated Reactivity in Acute Kawasaki Disease

• Tetsuya Sano
• Yusuke Itagaki
• Tetsuzo Tagawa

Echocardiographic Videodensity Index of the Coronary Arteries in Kawasaki Disease: A Predictor for Subsequent Coronary Artery Abnormality

• Suthep Wanitkun
• Pongsak Khowsathit
• Boonchob Pongpanich

Changes in Plasma Nitrate Levels in the Acute Phase of Kawasaki Disease

• Yumiko Ikemoto
• Masayuki Teraguchi
• Shunji Nogi

NF-kappa B Activation in Peripheral Blood Monocytes/Macrophages and T Cells during Acute Kawasaki Disease

• Takashi Ichiyama
• Tomomi Yoshitomi
• Susumu Furukawa

Correlation of MPO-ANCA Epitope between Patients with Kawasaki Disease and Their Mothers

• Kazuo Suzuki
• Tomio Okazaki

Two Cases of Kawasaki-Disease Who Showed Coronary Arterial Dilatation Even after Good Response to a Single High-dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Infusion

• Takashi Takeuchi
• Norihiro Inoue
• Ritsuko Miyashita

Does Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxin-C Trigger the Onset of Kawasaki Disease? -Association between Superantigens and Autoantibody against Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells-

• Hiroyuki Suzuki
• Yasuteru Muragaki
• Ryuji Suzuki

Enhanced B Cell Superantigen-like Interaction of IVIG with IgG but not IgA Cloned from a KD Patient after IVIG Therapy

• Peter Fischer
• Stephan Leucht
• Martina M Uttenreuther-Fischer