Conferences and symposiums Kawasaki disease – bench to bedside

22-10-2025 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Add to iCal
Sune Bergströms aula, Bioclinicum, Solnavägen 30

Kawasaki disease is an acute pediatric vasculitis that can affect the coronary arteries. In Sweden, an increasing trend of cases is seen. There is a need for more knowledge about the disease for treating physicians and among the limited number of researchers in the field in Sweden.

We are therefore arranging a symposium on Kawasaki disease to provide an opportunity for interaction with knowledge exchange and creating new collaborations, as well as to encourage research in the field. The aim is also to obtain knowledge from invited international experts.

  • No prior registration required.
  • Organizer: Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Professor of Experimental Rheumatology at the Department of Medicine, Solna.

Agenda

9.00 Welcome
Marie Wahren-Herlenius

My experience of Kawasaki disease as a parent
Tina Fagher

Session I: Epidemiology and risk factors

Chairs: Göran Elinder and Bodil Schiller

9.15 Keynote lecture: Kawasaki disease
Jane Burns

9.45 The increasing incidence of Kawasaki disease in Sweden
Andre Rudolph

10.00 Neonatal and parental risk factors for Kawasaki disease
Anna Frisk

10.15 Infections as triggers of Kawasaki disease
Johannes Mofors

10.30 Coffee

Session II: Pathogenesis and treatment in the young

Chairs: Felicia Nordenstam and Per Eriksson

11.00 Keynote lecture: The multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
Petter Brodin

11.30 Function of Kawasaki disease associated gene DIORA1
Tilen Trselic

11.50 DIORA1 KO mice present with IgA deficiency
Elina RichardsdoSer Andersson

12.10 Report from a clinical trial in Kawasaki disease
Olof Hertting

12.30 Lunch

Session III: Arteries, aneurysms and interventions

Chairs: Joy Roy and Gunnar Bergman

13.30 Keynote lecture: Interventions in adult Kawasaki patients
John B. Gordon III

14.00 Microvascular dysfunction in coronary artery disease
Liyew Desta

14.20 Therapeutic options for giant coronary artery aneurysms in Kawasaki disease
Jane Burns

14.50 Adult aneurysm treatment
Anders Franco-Cereceda

15.30 Closing of the symposium