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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2011 ROWLEY, Anne H.; BAKER, Susan C.; SHULMAN, Stanford T.; ET AL

Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.

The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…

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2020 JONES, Veena Goel; MILLS, Marcos; SUAREZ, Dominique Marie; ET AL

Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.

Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…

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