Kawasaki disease
Enfermedad de Kawasaki
- Date
- 1967 · confidence high
- Place
- Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Kawasaki Tomisaku
- People
- 👤 Tomisaku Kawasaki1925–2020
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Description of a childhood vasculitis with fever, rash and swollen glands, based on 50 cases. It is now the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries.
What it led to
- treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin
- prevention of coronary artery aneurysms in children