Kawasaki Syndrome

Kawasaki syndrome, first identified by Tomisaku Kawasaki, is a multisystem disease of young children that is also known as the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.1 The most serious complication is vasculitis of the coronary arteries. Kawasaki syndrome occurs worldwide and is a reportable disease in the United States, where the annual incidence is 4.5 to 8.5 cases per 100,000 children less than five years of age. When outbreaks occur, the incidence may rise to more than 150 per 100,000 children in a particular community. No evidence for a point source or for person-to-person transmission has ever been documented, however.The cause . . .