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Kawasaki disease is a very serious disease that can mimic many infections. When unrecognized and untreated, it can result in severe damage to the coronary arteries of the heart, resulting in heart attack and sudden death in children. Luckily, most pediatricians are taught to look out for Kawasak...
Disease discovered in Japan in the 1960s has helped doctors treat the new syndrome in children linked to COVID-19, and the learning may go both ways.
I'm talking broad brush here. All around the world, people are generally more affluent, healthier, less disease prone, and living longer than they did in the sixties and seventies. In 1968, that was the peak of population growth. It was 2.1 percent. Now it's just over half, it's a...
And he just gave the kids money, and you know what he got back for it? Nothing, ungrateful, didn't like him, bum, zero. So I don't think it's inherently bad to give the kid money, but I would look at it more as an investment than a gift. Because a gift, by definition, is...
Discussion Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile illness of unknown etiology most common in young children that was first described by Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967[1]. The diagnosis is considered when patients have persistent fever for at least 5 days, cervical lymphadenopathy, bilateral non-...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is rare, with fewer than 6,000 diagnosed cases per year in the United States. It is most common in infants and young children and causes inflammation in the walls of some blood vessels in the body. KD is a common cause of acquired heart disease in children around ...
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the second-most-common childhood vasculitis, and its etiology is still unknown today. Even though the acute illness is usually self-limiting, sometimes, it can generate complications, such as coronary artery aneurysms (CAA), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure...