Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports – January 1, 2014
January 1, 2014
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Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki disease, first described by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967, is a self-limited systemic inflammatory vasculitis characterized by fever and a variety of mucocutaneous manifestations. Surpassing rheumatic heart disease, it is now the leading cause of acquired cardiac disease in children.