KAWASAKI DISEASE

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	KAWASAKI DISEASE
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KAWASAKI DISEASE

Disease of Kawasaki

Epidemic disease (that produces a reddish eruption).

It appears in smaller children of five years.

Causes

Infectious, of unknown agent, it seems to be due to producing toxin microbes (estrepto or estafilocócicos), that cause a disturbed reaction of the immune apparatus.

Signs and symptoms

In the first ten days they appear (it does not have why to be simultaneously):

Fever.

Conjuntivitis.

Reddening and inflammation of palms and plants.

Polimorfa cutaneous eruption (reddish, spots as much small as great, that they change to day by day), generally pruriginosa (that produces picor).

In one second phase, subacute, that lasts until the third week, they appear:

Descamación (loss of the superficial layers of the skin) of hands and feet.

Appearance of concrete arterial expansions (bulks that beat underneath the skin.)

Factors of risk

Strangers.

Prevention

It does not have.

Diagnosis and treatment

The diagnosis is made by means of the signs and clinical symptoms. It requires a certain degree of suspicion on the part of pediatra.

Analyses will be due to do of blood, tinkles, tests cardiac and others, according to the clinical picture. The treatment is doctor.

Treatment

The treatment will have to be made in a hospital, to prevent the complications cardiac.

Complications

In the acute phase they can take place affectation to articulate, cardiac, cerebral or hepática.

In the subacute phase expansions of the coronary arteries can appear, acute infarct of myocardium and affectation to articulate.

They can stay as definitive sequels, coronary injuries and of the joints.

Prognosis

If one treats on time, and the complications are avoided cardiac, good.

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