Kawasaki Syndrome
 

Kawasaki syndrome (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) is a serious acute rare febrile children’s disease of unknown etiology, first described in Japan in 1967 by Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki.

Clinical criteria:

5-day fever of unknown origine and at least four clinical findings:
11 Bilateral conjunctivitis
22 Oral mucous membrane changes
  3 Edema (swelling) of peripheral extremities
  44 Cervical lymphadenopathy (at least one lymph node greater than or equal to 1.5 cm in diameter)
  5 Erythema. The skin eruptions are symmetrically distributed in the perineal, abdominal areas, extremities.

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