Kawasaki Disease
- A 2022 study recently published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics journal revealed that children reported hyperinflammatory shock with clinical features similar to those of Kawasaki disease (KD) after COVID-19 infection in 2020.
- Kawasaki disease, also known as Kawasaki syndrome or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is a rare disease that causes fever and inflammation of the blood vessels.
- The disease derives its name from a Japanese paediatrician, Tomisaku Kawasaki who reported the first case in 1961 — in a four-year-old boy — and later found similar cases in other children.
- The condition causes the immune system to attack blood vessels, which become inflamed and ....
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