Kawasaki Disease Clinical Trials

This study is a prospective, mutli-center, single-arm post-marketing clinical use surveillance study. The Surveillance will consecutively register patients with moderate to severe and severe mitral regurgitation (3+ and 4+ MR) in whom a MitraClip implant was attempted. Patients registered in the AVJ-514 clinical trial who received additional MitraClip procedures will ...

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis most commonly seen in children under the age of 5 years old. High-dose aspirin is often administered, but the duration of such treatment varies. Many centers reduce the aspirin dose once the patient is afebrile, even before treating said patient ...

ANCA (anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody)-associated vasculitis is characterised by small vessel vasculitis and presence of autoantibodies, ANCA. It can be a life-threatening disease with renal/respiratory failure. Current standard therapy in induction remission for ANCA-associated vasculitis is combination of high-dose glucocorticoid and IV-cyclophosphamide. This regimen is effective (remission rate; 80-90%), but often ...

we will conduct a single-center, single-group prospective study with safety and imaging endpoints. A total of 10 KD children or young adults with indication of revascularization are enrolled, and BVS will be implanted for stenotic or occluded lesions. QCA and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are used to evaluate the baseline ...

Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world. Despite available treatment, 25% of children in San Diego County appropriately treated for KD develop coronary artery abnormalities that may lead to complications later in life, including heart attack. Although the investigators can ...

Patient Selection and Family Surveillance: At National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan, we will study patients who fulfill the criteria of Kawasaki disease or atypical Kawasaki disease and their household family members from 2004 to Dec 2005. Institutional Review Board approval will be obtained for this study and informed consents ...

It has been concluded that available evidence suggests that behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation conducted by oral health professionals incorporating an oral examination component in the dental office or community setting may increase tobacco abstinence rates among both cigarette smokers and smokeless tobacco users (Cochrane Database Syst Rev.6:CD005084.) However, efficacy ...

This is a 3-year (2.75-years of enrollment), Phase III, two-arm, randomized, multi-center, superiority treatment study to compare infliximab to a second intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusion for treatment of persistent or recrudescent fever in children with KD who fail to become afebrile after the first IVIG infusion. Specific aim 1 will ...

Background Kawasaki disease (KD), most popular acquired heart disease in childhood, is characterized by diffuse vasculitis, especially on the middle-sized muscular arteries. IVIG and aspirin are currently standard treatment. However, 10-15% of KD patients have poor response to such treatment and suffer from higher risk of coronary involvement. Recently, combination ...

The total study duration per patient is expected to be up to 68 weeks that will consist of a 4-week run-in period, 52-week treatment period, and a 12-week posttreatment period.