Elevated serum levels of macrophage colony-stimulating factor in patients with Kawasaki disease complicated by cardiac lesions

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 751-756

  Igarashi, H ^a   Hatake, K ^a   Shiraishi, H ^a   Samada, K ^a   Tomizuka, H ^a   Momoi, M Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery lesion; Kawasaki disease; Macrophage colony stimulating factor; Mitral valvular insufficiency

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; THROMBOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035667990     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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