Treatment, Acute Phase

Friday, Feb. 12

Oral Abstract Presentations: Treatment and Retreatment in the Acute Phase

Chairs: Tsutomu Saji, Tokyo, Japan; Earl D. Silverman, Toronto, Canada

Corticosteroid Therapy in Kawasaki Disease: Preliminary Report of a Pilot Study of Combined IVIG and Pulse Methylprednisolone as Initial Treatment

Robert P. Sundel, Annette Baker, David R. Fulton, B. Anne Eberhard, Jane W. Newburger

Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Intravenous Gamma Globulin Treatment and Retreatment in KD

Jane C. Burns, Edmund V. Capparelli, Jane W. Newburger, Mary P. Glode, for the US/Canadian Kawasaki Syndrome Study Group

University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO

Plasma Exchange for Intractable Kawasaki Disease

Tomoyuki Imagawa, Takako Miyamae, Shuichi Ito, Toshihiro Mitsuda, Yuko Aihara, Shumpei Yokota

Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama City, Japan

Retreatment for Immune Globulin-Resistant Kawasaki Disease: Comparative Study of Additional Immune Globulin and Pulse Steroid Therapy

Kanoko Hashino, Masahiro Ishii, Motofumi Iemura, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Teiji Akagi, Hirohisa Kato

Kurume University, Kurume, Japan

Apparent Increasing Rate of Intravenous Gamma Globulin Therapy Failure in Kawasaki Disease: Analysis of Clinical Associations and Outcomes

Wilbert Mason, Masato Takahashi

Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Severe Kawasaki Disease Treated with Oral Corticosteroids

Moin A. Saleem, Russell Dale, Steven Daw, Michael J. Dillon

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and The North Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

Gamma Globulin Retreatment in Kawasaki Disease

Mitsuji Iwasa, Kyoshi Fukuda, Takehiko Yokoyama, Tsunesaburo Ando

Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Round Table Discussion: Treatment and Retreatment

Chair: Tsutomu Saji. Tokyo, Japan

Jane C. Burns, San Diego, CA; Anne H. Rowley, Chicago, IL; Tomoyoshi Sonobe, Tokyo, Japan

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