Kawasaki disease

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a self-limited multisystemic disease of unknown etiology that typically causes fever and acute inflammation in young children. It is also referred to as "mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome," because of its involvement of the mucous membranes, skin, and lymph nodes. It has 3 stages that lasts about 12 days which are comprised of the acute, subacute, and convalescent phases. This syndrome may result in the complication of damage to the coronary arteries, due to inflammatory cell infiltration into vascular tissues. Etiology and Epidemiology The exact etiology of Kawsaki disease unknown. There are several theories that have been proposed secondary to the data that has been collected. It is unknown if there is an agent…

Jennifer Yang begins her article “The mystery of Kawasaki disease and the quest for a cure” saying that three kids died for this sickness and the parents are not aware of it what is the causes but they have the knowledge of how diagnoses this disease. Kawasaki disease is an illness that involves the skin, mouth, and lymph nodes, and most often affects kids under age 5. The cause is unknown, but if the symptoms are recognized early, kids with Kawasaki disease can fully recover within a few days.…

Kawasaki Disease Nichole Grodis YTI October 6, 2015 When I think of the word Kawasaki, personally I think of a dirt bike, not a disease. Not many people know about this disease because it is very rare. So rare there is only 20,000 cases are reported each year. This disease is named after Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, a Japanese pediatrician, the disease was likely around for a long time but it was not until 1967 that it was recognized as a disease (American Heart Association, 2012). To further…

In 1967 Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki, a Japanese Pediatrician was the first to describe a serious illness characterized by inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body that primarily affects children under the age of five and infants. The Kawasaki Disease, named after Tomisaku, is also known as Kawasaki syndrome and Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome, because it affects lymph nodes, skin and the mucous membranes inside of the mouth, nose and throat. Kawasaki Disease is slightly more common in…

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Journal Entry 9 Kawasaki disease is a very rare disease that is typically found in children from five years of age and under. Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in the walls of arteries throughout the body(Kawasaki Disease). It is also known as Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, because it commonly affects a person’s lymph nodes, skin, and the mucous membranes. With this disease being so rare there is only about 4,200 cases a year in the United States(Kawasaki Disease Foundation). Although it…

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More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

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In the late 1900s scientists were able to describe a rare congenital genetic disease called “1p36” for the first time. Later, in 2001, a girl named Sonia was born; two weeks after her birth, she had heart failure and her parents had to take her to the hospital due to low vital signs; that was the first time doctors noticed that there was something wrong with her. A couple of days later, they realized that not only her heart wasn’t functioning properly, but she had low muscle tone, and seizures.…