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74: Kawasaki Disease
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Published:January 2023
"Kawasaki Disease", Red Book Atlas of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP
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Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis of medium-sized arteries, the diagnosis of which is made in patients with fever in addition to the presence of the following clinical criteria:
The diagnosis of classic (or complete) Kawasaki disease is based on the presence of 5 or more days of fever and 4 or more of the 5 principal features described. Clinicians should consider Kawasaki disease in their differential diagnosis before the fifth day of fever if several of the principal features are present without alternative explanation. Individual clinical manifestations may appear and self-resolve rather than be present simultaneously. It is important to...
