3/9/11

What are the symptoms of Kawasaki disease and harm?

Children with Kawasaki disease mainly for persistent fever, skin rash, conjunctival, intraoral film damage the eyes and swelling of lymph nodes, but does not rule out at some point, Kawasaki disease may be in the liver, lung, kidney and other organ damage as the initial symptom.


Cardiovascular damage caused by Kawasaki disease is the most important factors affecting the prognosis are also main causes of child ischemic heart disease, coronary heart disease may also be raised at the child later in life. And coronary artery lesions and heart failure is caused by Kawasaki disease the leading cause of death. And according to the analysis indicates that, pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease in younger, the greater the risk of coronary artery damage.


In addition to coronary arterial lesions and cardiac damage, some one-third may also occur in children with liver damage, lung, kidney and other organs.


However, due to the increased levels of diagnosis and treatment in recent years, Kawasaki disease case fatality rate has from the last century 70 \'s fall from 2% of the following.

No comments:

Post a Comment