KAWASAKI SYNDROME-2

KAWASAKI SYNDROME-2

Dr Sukumaran said Kawasaki syndrome was an actuate self limiting inflammatory disease of the blood vessels, especially coronary blood vessel with unknown etiology, presented as rashes, redness of eye, mouth, lymph node enlargement, swelling of hands and coronary dilatation. If not treated with immunoglobulin and aspiring, 20, 24 percent of the affected person would develop coronary artery dilatatiion,eventually leading to heart attack in small children.
Dr Saji Philip said Kawasaki syndrome was first described by Tomesaku Kawasaki in Japan in 1967. According to him, the disease is more prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. Kawasaki syndrome is reported to be the most common cause of acquired heart disease in the U.S and Japan.
There was a general consensus among physicians that the number of diagnosed cases of Kawasaki syndrome was on the rise in India.
Many physicians were of the opinion that increased awareness on the syndrome had led to reporting of more cases, which other wise had been misclassified a drug reactions or viral and bacterial toxin-related illness. Often the overlapping picture of measles is found to have misguided the physicians and padediatricians in the diagnosis of Kawasaki syndrome.
Males are more affected and 80 percent of the of the affected persons were found to be less than five years of age. Morbidity and Mortality from Kawasaki syndrome was often found to have been due to cardiac sequelae.
Official website of Kawasaki disease www.kawasakidiseaseindia.org

                                          Prof. John Kurakar