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01-04-2014 | Review Article
History of Kawasaki disease
Published in: Clinical and Experimental Nephrology | Issue 2/2014
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We describe a short history of Kawasaki disease. In 1967, we published a paper entitled ‘Infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes. Clinical observation of 50 cases’; this was the first report on what is now called Kawasaki disease. Since then, many reports on cardiology, treatment, epidemiology, pathology and etiology of Kawasaki disease have been published. Furthermore, a recent Chapel Hill Consensus Statement on Kawasaki disease in the classification of vasculitis is given, along with a figure on the relationship and classification of childhood vasculitis by autopsy material.