Kawasaki disease

• Two baby girls diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, a condition causing inflammation of blood vessels, were successfully treated at Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).
• Both babies treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy.

ABOUT

• “Kawasaki disease” is a rare heart condition often starts with a high and persistent fever that is not very responsive to normal treatment.
• In this condition immune system attacks the blood vessels, which become inflamed and swollen and tends to affect the coronary arteries which carries blood to the heart muscle.
• Children with the disease might have high fever, swollen hands and feet with skin peeling and red eyes and tongue.
• Kawasaki disease was first discovered by Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967 in Japan, and the first cases outside of Japan were reported in Hawaii in 1976.