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Shu-jen Yeh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Viral infections associated with Kawasaki disease.
    Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi, 2014
    Co-Authors: Luan-yin Chang, Pei-lan Shao, Ping-ing Lee, Ming-tai Lin, Tsui-yien Fan, Ai-ling Cheng, Wan-ling Lee, Shu-jen Yeh
    Abstract:

    Background/Purpose Kawasaki disease (KD) is a disease of unknown cause. To investigate the infectious etiology of Kawasaki disease, we initiated a prospective case-control study to investigate possible links between common viral infections and Kawasaki disease. Methods We enrolled 226 children with KD and 226 age- and sex-matched healthy children from February 2004 to March 2010. Throat and nasopharyngeal swabs were taken for both viral isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for various viruses. Results The mean age of the 226 KD cases was 2.07 years, and the male to female ratio was 1.43 (133 boys to 93 girls). Their mean fever duration was 7.5 days with a mean peak temperature of 39.7°C. In addition to the typical symptoms of fever, neck lymphadenopathy, Lip Fissure and/or strawberry tongue, skin rash, nonpurulent bulbar conjunctivitis, palm/sole erythema, and induration followed by periungual desquamation, these KD cases also exhibited cough (69%), rhinorrhea (58%), and diarrhea (45%). Cases of KD had a significantly higher positive rate of viral isolation in comparison with the control group (7.5% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.02). Compared with the control group, cases of KD were more likely to have overall positive rates of viral PCR (50.4% vs. 16.4%, p  Conclusion We found that some common respiratory viruses, such as adenoviruses, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, and coronaviruses, were associated with KD cases.

  • Viral infections associated with Kawasaki disease
    Elsevier, 2014
    Co-Authors: Luan-yin Chang, Pei-lan Shao, Ping-ing Lee, Ming-tai Lin, Tsui-yien Fan, Ai-ling Cheng, Wan-ling Lee, Shu-jen Yeh
    Abstract:

    Kawasaki disease (KD) is a disease of unknown cause. To investigate the infectious etiology of Kawasaki disease, we initiated a prospective case-control study to investigate possible links between common viral infections and Kawasaki disease. Methods: We enrolled 226 children with KD and 226 age- and sex-matched healthy children from February 2004 to March 2010. Throat and nasopharyngeal swabs were taken for both viral isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for various viruses. Results: The mean age of the 226 KD cases was 2.07 years, and the male to female ratio was 1.43 (133 boys to 93 girls). Their mean fever duration was 7.5 days with a mean peak temperature of 39.7°C. In addition to the typical symptoms of fever, neck lymphadenopathy, Lip Fissure and/or strawberry tongue, skin rash, nonpurulent bulbar conjunctivitis, palm/sole erythema, and induration followed by periungual desquamation, these KD cases also exhibited cough (69%), rhinorrhea (58%), and diarrhea (45%). Cases of KD had a significantly higher positive rate of viral isolation in comparison with the control group (7.5% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.02). Compared with the control group, cases of KD were more likely to have overall positive rates of viral PCR (50.4% vs. 16.4%, p 

B E Rosenquist - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • median Lip Fissure
    Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 1995
    Co-Authors: B E Rosenquist
    Abstract:

    Forty-two cases of median Lip Fissures are reported. The majority of these had earlier been treated conservatively without healing. All cases were corrected by surgery, the first 10 by excision only, the remaining 32 by excision combined with Z-plasty. In the first group, one total and one partial relapse occurred; in the second group all patients healed uneventfully. Pedigrees were obtained and indicated that a hereditary component in the cause exists. The location of and the resistance to conservative treatment may suggest that these lesions that seem to be due to a weakness in the Lip may be very discreet manifestations of the cleft, which, in more severe cases, was classified as no. 30 by Tessier.

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  • Median Lip Fissure: etiology and suggested treatment.
    Oral surgery oral medicine and oral pathology, 1991
    Co-Authors: Bo Rosenquist
    Abstract:

    In a prospective study of 20 patients with median Lip Fissure, pedigrees were obtained. A hereditary predisposition for weakness in the first branchial arch fusion seems to exist. In some persons, more often in males than in females, this weakness eventually leads to development of a median Lip Fissure. The Fissure becomes symptomatic when it is infected. In 10 patients the Fissure was excised; in the other 10 patients excision was done in combination with a Z-plasty of the center of the lesion. The prognosis with the latter operation was superior to that with the former.

Luan-yin Chang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Viral infections associated with Kawasaki disease.
    Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi, 2014
    Co-Authors: Luan-yin Chang, Pei-lan Shao, Ping-ing Lee, Ming-tai Lin, Tsui-yien Fan, Ai-ling Cheng, Wan-ling Lee, Shu-jen Yeh
    Abstract:

    Background/Purpose Kawasaki disease (KD) is a disease of unknown cause. To investigate the infectious etiology of Kawasaki disease, we initiated a prospective case-control study to investigate possible links between common viral infections and Kawasaki disease. Methods We enrolled 226 children with KD and 226 age- and sex-matched healthy children from February 2004 to March 2010. Throat and nasopharyngeal swabs were taken for both viral isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for various viruses. Results The mean age of the 226 KD cases was 2.07 years, and the male to female ratio was 1.43 (133 boys to 93 girls). Their mean fever duration was 7.5 days with a mean peak temperature of 39.7°C. In addition to the typical symptoms of fever, neck lymphadenopathy, Lip Fissure and/or strawberry tongue, skin rash, nonpurulent bulbar conjunctivitis, palm/sole erythema, and induration followed by periungual desquamation, these KD cases also exhibited cough (69%), rhinorrhea (58%), and diarrhea (45%). Cases of KD had a significantly higher positive rate of viral isolation in comparison with the control group (7.5% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.02). Compared with the control group, cases of KD were more likely to have overall positive rates of viral PCR (50.4% vs. 16.4%, p  Conclusion We found that some common respiratory viruses, such as adenoviruses, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, and coronaviruses, were associated with KD cases.

  • Viral infections associated with Kawasaki disease
    Elsevier, 2014
    Co-Authors: Luan-yin Chang, Pei-lan Shao, Ping-ing Lee, Ming-tai Lin, Tsui-yien Fan, Ai-ling Cheng, Wan-ling Lee, Shu-jen Yeh
    Abstract:

    Kawasaki disease (KD) is a disease of unknown cause. To investigate the infectious etiology of Kawasaki disease, we initiated a prospective case-control study to investigate possible links between common viral infections and Kawasaki disease. Methods: We enrolled 226 children with KD and 226 age- and sex-matched healthy children from February 2004 to March 2010. Throat and nasopharyngeal swabs were taken for both viral isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for various viruses. Results: The mean age of the 226 KD cases was 2.07 years, and the male to female ratio was 1.43 (133 boys to 93 girls). Their mean fever duration was 7.5 days with a mean peak temperature of 39.7°C. In addition to the typical symptoms of fever, neck lymphadenopathy, Lip Fissure and/or strawberry tongue, skin rash, nonpurulent bulbar conjunctivitis, palm/sole erythema, and induration followed by periungual desquamation, these KD cases also exhibited cough (69%), rhinorrhea (58%), and diarrhea (45%). Cases of KD had a significantly higher positive rate of viral isolation in comparison with the control group (7.5% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.02). Compared with the control group, cases of KD were more likely to have overall positive rates of viral PCR (50.4% vs. 16.4%, p 

Álvarez Fernández, Yelaines Emilia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Lip-palate cleft. Our experience in 14 cases
    Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Infomed Granma, 2017
    Co-Authors: Chávez Ríos Omar, Álvarez Fernández, Yelaines Emilia
    Abstract:

    Introducción: la fisura labial es una malformación congénita que puede estar asociada a fisura velo-palatina como consecuencias de disrupciones en los distintos mecanismos embriológicos que ocurren durante el desarrollo fetal en la región maxilofacial.Presentación de casos: catorce pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de fisura labio-palatina en el hospital general de Malange Angola en el periodo comprendido entre mayo del 2014 a julio del 2015, con el objetivo de demostrar los resultados mediante el tratamiento quirúrgico de esta deformidad. Según la edad, el grupo con más morbilidad fue de 0 a 5 años (35.8 %), ambos sexos fueron afectados por igual (50 %), según la clasificación de la OMS encontramos 8 pacientes con fisura labial unilateral (57.2 %), 4 pacientes con fisura labial unilateral asociada a fisura palatina completa (28,6 %) y un paciente con fisura labial bilateral asociada a fisura palatina completa (7.2 %). La técnica quirúrgica de Millard se utilizó en 12 pacientes (85.7 %) y solo dos por la técnica de Tennyson-Randall (14.3 %).Conclusiones: resultaron rehabilitados estética, funcional y psicosocialmente el 57,2 % y solo parcialmente el 35.8 % por no disponer del instrumental adecuado para la corrección de la fisura palatina.Introduction: the cleft Lip is a congenital malformation that may be associated with cleft soft palate as a consequence of disruptions in the different embryological mechanisms that occur during fetal development in the maxillofacial region. Case presentation: 14 patients with clinical diagnosis of cleft Lip and palate at the Malange Angola general hospital from May 2014 to July 2015 were evaluated, in order to demonstrate the results by surgical treatment of this deformity. According to age, the group with the highest morbidity was 0 to 5 years old (35.8 %), both sexes were affected equally (50 %), according to the WHO classification we found 8 patients with unilateral Lip Fissure (57.2 %), 4 patients with unilateral cleft Lip associated with complete cleft palate (28.6 %) and one patient with bilateral cleft Lip associated with complete cleft palate (7.2 %). Millard's surgical technique was used in 12 patients (85.7 %) and only two patients by the Tennyson-Randall surgical technique (14.3 %). Conclusions: aesthetic, functional and psychosocially rehabilitated 57.2% and only partially 35.8 % because they did not have adequate instruments for the correction of the cleft palate