Kawasaki disease. Aspects to take into consideration

Authors

  • Lázaro Arturo Vidal Tallet Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas
  • Amaury Noda Albelo Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas
  • Andrea X Casal Menedez Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas
  • Caridad A Sánchez Hernández Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas
  • Oscar A Montell Hernández Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas
  • Idianne Linares Álvarez Hospital Provincial Pediátrico Docente Eliseo Noel Camaaño. Matanzas

Keywords:

MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, PROGNOSIS, HUMANS, CHILD, STUDIES, EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE

Abstract

Kawasaki disease has been studied by epidemiologists, clinicians and researchers, since it was described firstly in 1967. Its cause has not been identified, though the main hypothesis point out to an infectious etiology. From the pathogenic point of view, the incapacity of recovering an infectious agent in a consistent way and the anatomopathological and laboratory evidences of a cellular and humoral immunity activation tend to place Kawasaki disease in the category of an autoimmune disease. One of the main current problems is the diagnosis delay, correlated with a worst prognostic of the main consequences of the disease, the compromise of the coronary vases among them. In this work we make a review of the disease and show the importance of the precocious diagnostic and treatment, and also present notes of the behavior of this disease at the Teaching Provincial Pediatric Hospital Eliseo Noel Caamaño, of Matanzas, in the period from 2001 to 2010.

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Vidal Tallet LA, Noda Albelo A, Casal Menedez AX, Sánchez Hernández CA, Montell Hernández OA, Linares Álvarez I. Kawasaki disease. Aspects to take into consideration. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 19 [cited 2025 May 14];32(4):335-4. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/739

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 4 (2010)

Section

Review article

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