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Article: Kawasaki Syndrome - Rare But Not Unheard Of.(Brief Article)
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Kawasaki Syndrome is the kind of exotic sounding illness that one expects to see on TV medical dramas but never to experience first hand. It is common enough that, in our moderate sized community hospital, we see four to six cases per year of the actual syndrome. Much more often it is included in a differential diagnosis of a sick child.
This condition was first described in 1967 by Dr. Tamisaku Kawasaki who noted a constellation of symptoms in several children of his Tokyo practice. These children fit into no other previously described diagnostic category and all had similar clinical characteristics.
First, they had high fever (102 [degrees] F to 104 ...