[High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin treatment].

High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (VIG) treatment for the acute stage of Kawasaki disease (KD) has shown to be effective and safe. But it is known that 15% to 20% of patients are resistant to initial MG. Initial VIG treatment (2 g/kg) and aspirin (30-50 mg/kg/day) within 9th day of illness has a potentially risk of coronary arterial lesions.

[The positivity of specific IgE to salmon roe and cod roe in outpatients].

Purpose: To clarify the positivity of specific IgE to salmon and cod roe in outpatients.

Methods: Specific IgE were assayed using CAP RAST system in 91 pediatric outpatients. They were 47 males and 44 females, including 22 allergic, 29 infectious, 10 neurological, 8 gastrointestinal, 7 urological, 6 hematologic, 3 metabolic disease and 6 other disorders.

Long-term follow up of abdominal aortic aneurysm complicating Kawasaki disease: comparison of the effectiveness of different imaging methods.

A 2 month old boy with Kawasaki disease developed the rare complication of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). He was followed up over 7 years by ultrasonography (2D-ECHO) with and without Doppler flow evaluation, angiography and computed tomography. Calcification was noted 33 months after the onset of the disease but the aneurysm did not decrease in size.