Open AccessKawasaki Disease - a Case Report
Author(s) -
Shrijana Shrestha,
Neelam Adhikari
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.640
Subject(s) - medicine , kawasaki disease , etiology , incidence (geometry) , disease , vasculitis , abnormality , pediatrics , heart disease , systemic disease , systemic vasculitis , surgery , artery , physics , psychiatry , optics
Kawasaki disease, first described by Tomisaku Kawasaki in1967, is an acute systemic vasculitis of infancy and childhood.It is now the leading cause of acquired heart disease indeveloped countries. The most common age group affected isbetween 6 months to 5 years and the peak incidence is inchildren aged 9 to 11 months. The disease has malepreponderance with the male female ratio of 1.5:1. Thoughthe exact etiology is not known the disease is known to beassociated with unusual degree of immune activation andimmunoregulatory abnormality.