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Last Updated on January 7, 2021
Types of Heart Disease in Children
4. Kawasaki disease:
© smartparents.sgThe disease was described for the first time in the English medical literature in 1967 by a Japanese pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki; He identified a group of children with fever, rash, conjunctivitis (red eyes), enanthema (redness of the throat and mouth), swelling of the hands and feet, and hypertrophy Of the lymph nodes of the neck.
Kawasaki disease is rare. It usually affects children under the age of five, but older children may also be affected. We do not know what causes Kawasaki disease, and there is no particular test for diagnosis. We also do not know why some children develop the disease and others do not.
