1967 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

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1974 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – ); KOSAKI, Fumio; OKAWA, Sumio; ET AL

A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.

The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

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1974 KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019); MATSUYA, Shoji; YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…

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1978 GANDEVIA, Bryan Harle (1925 – 2006)

Tears often shed. Child health and welfare in Australia from 1788.

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