id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-017245-kxqh32ip Sharma, Avinash Kawasaki Disease 2016-06-02 .txt text/plain 4092 254 57 Initially described in 1967 by Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki in Japanese children as an acute mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome [ 1 -3 ] , KD may lead to coronary artery abnormalities (CAAs) in up to 25 % of patients if left untreated. Japan reports the highest incidence of KD in the world -the present fi gure being 265/100,000 children below the age of 5 years. In the years to come, KD may soon replace rheumatic fever to become the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in India, just as in Japan, Europe and North America. If a child has fever for less than 5 days or has less than four criteria, the presence of coronary artery abnormalities (CAAs) detected on 2D echocardiography would also suggest a diagnosis of KD [ 17 ] . A replication study for association of ITPKC and CASP3 two-locus analysis in IVIG unresponsiveness and coronary artery lesion in Kawasaki disease ./cache/cord-017245-kxqh32ip.txt ./txt/cord-017245-kxqh32ip.txt