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VIDAL TALLET, Lázaro Arturo et al. Kawasaki disease. Aspects to take into consideration. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2010, vol.32, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1684-1824.

Kawasaki disease has been studied by epidemiologists, clinicians and researchers, since it was described firstly in 1967. Its cause has not been identified, though the main hypothesis point out to an infectious etiology. From the pathogenic point of view, the incapacity of recovering an infectious agent in a consistent way and the anatomopathological and laboratory evidences of a cellular and humoral immunity activation tend to place Kawasaki disease in the category of an autoimmune disease. One of the main current problems is the diagnosis delay, correlated with a worst prognostic of the main consequences of the disease, the compromise of the coronary vases among them. In this work we make a review of the disease and show the importance of the precocious diagnostic and treatment, and also present notes of the behavior of this disease at the Teaching Provincial Pediatric Hospital Eliseo Noel Caamaño, of Matanzas, in the period from 2001 to 2010.

Palabras clave : MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME [diagnosis]; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME [epidemiology]; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME [complications]; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME [drug therapy]; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES [diagnosis]; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES [etiology]; PROGNOSIS; HUMANS; CHILD; STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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