|
Sunday, May 02, 2010
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Session Number: 2100 |
| Advances in Etiologic Studies of Kawasaki Disease |
| PAS State of the Art Plenary |
| Vancouver Convention Centre ~ 211 |
| |
| Target Audience: Scientists interested in microbiology and molecular biology as well as clinicians interested in febrile children, pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric cardiology. |
| |
| Objectives:
-Understand the likely etiology of KD At the conclusions of this session
- Appreciate the applications of knowing the etiology to management of KD patients |
| |
| Chairs: Stanford Shulman, Children`s Memorial/Northwestern, Chicago, IL and Shumpei Yokota, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan |
| |
| Kawasaki disease is an unknown cause of multisystem vasculitis that primarily affects the coronary arteries of young children. In this session, advances in etiologic studies of KD will be presented by 3 speakers as follows:[br]Dr. Rowley will talk recent progress of her unique studies on the etiology of KD. Dr. Hara will present their recent results on the involvement of innate immunity in the development of KD by human and murine studies which suggest a critical role of the microbiota in the development of KD. Dr. Yamashiro will claim on the basis of their studies that KD is caused by bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract though their productions of superantigens and heat-shock proteins. |
| |
| - |
Shumpei Yokota
Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan |
| 8:00 AM - |
Past Etiologic Studies of Kawasaki Disease
Stanford Taylor Shulman
Children[apos]s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University, Chicago, IL |
| 8:10 AM - |
Advances in Etiologic Studies of Kawasaki Disease
Anne H. Rowley
Children[apos]s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University, Chicago, IL |
| 8:40 AM - |
A Critical Role of Innate Immunity Receptors in the Development of Kawasaki Disease
Toshiro Hara
Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan |
| 9:10 AM - |
Kawasaki Disease Is a Disorder Caused by Bacteria in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Yuichiro Yamashiro
Probiotics Research Laboratory, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan |
| 9:40 AM - |
Discussion
Discussion
|
|
| |
| Program developed by the Asian Society for Pediatric Research, Japan Pediatric Society, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Pediatric Academic Societies |
| |
|
