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Review
. 2006 Apr;82(2):59-71.
doi: 10.2183/pjab.82.59.

Kawasaki disease

Tomisaku Kawasaki  1
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Review

Kawasaki disease

Tomisaku Kawasaki. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2006 Apr.

Abstract

Short history of Kawasaki disease, clinical features (principal symptoms and other significant symptoms or findings), diagnosis, cardiovascular involvement, epidemiology. Pathological features (lesion of vessels and lesion of organs exclusive of vessels), comparison between infantile periarteritis nodosa (IPN)/Kawasaki disease and classic periarteritis nodosa (CPN), etiology, treatment and management of Kawasaki disease are described.

Keywords: Kawasaki Disease (KD); acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome(MCLS); coronary artery aneurysms; infantile periarteritis nodosa(IPN).

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Figures

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Fig. 1.
Autopsied heart of Kawasaki disease: right and left coronary artery aneurysms with thrombosis. (Courtesy of Dr. Tamiko Takemura, Department of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center).
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Angiography of both right and left giant coronary artery aneurysms of Kawasaki disease. (Courtesy of Dr. Atsuko Suzuki, Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Teishin Hospital).
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Number of patients by year and sex.
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Incidence rate by year and sex.
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Age specific incidence by sex (Average of years of 1999–2002).
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