Kawasaki disease.
Kawasaki disease.
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DOI:
10.1148/radiology.203.1.218
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
L. Jonides;C. Rudy;S. Walsh
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作者:
L. Jonides;C. Rudy;S. Walsh
Kawasaki disease is an acute, febnile, mucocutaneous-affecting syndrome with no known cause and affects mainly infants and children younger than 5 years. There are six principal signs and symptoms involved in the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease, which include (a) fever that persists for 5 days or longer;(b) changes in the peripheral extremities such as reddening of palms and soles and indurative edema in the initial stage and membranous desqua-mation from the fingertips in the convalescent stage;(c) potymomphous exanthema;(d) bilateral conjunctivat congestion;(e) changes in the lips such as redden-ing, and changes in the oral cavity such as strawberry tongue and diffuse injection of oral and pharyngeal mucosa; and (f) acute nonpurulent cervical lymphadenopathy. In addition, other clinically important symptoms or findings are involved in diagnosis. For a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease to be made, a minimum of five of the six findings should be pres-ent. The diagnosis can be made if four signs or symp-toms are present, however, when coronary aneurysm is detected at two-dimensional echocardiography or coronary angiography. If four signs or symptoms are detected, the diagnosis is atypical Kawasaki disease; in North America, the presence of three or fewer findings is considered atypical Kawasaki disease if echocardiography on coronary angiography reveal coronary artery changes caused by artenitis. Rare autopsy findings of infantile peniarteritis nodosa, now termed infantile polyantenitis, cannot be distinguished from those of Kawasaki disease. Therefore, Kawasaki disease is not new; however, there were previously no means to identify this dis-ease in a clinical setting until it was established. Since 1970, 12 surveys have been performed nationwide in Japan; at the end of 1992, the number of cases of Kawasaki disease reported was 116,848. The number of cases increased since 1970; epidemics occurred in 1979, 1982, and 1986. Since 1987, no epidemics have occurred. The annual incidence is constant at 5,000-6,000 cases. According to surveys, the recurrence rate is 3%-5%. In 1994, in a study of 4,560 cases, the recurrence rate was found to be 5.21 per 1,000 person-years. The risk of recurrence was found to be high in patients younger than 2 years; treatment with intravenous administration of gamma globulin was not found to be a risk factor. When the cause of Kawasaki disease is considered, recurrence is an important factor; thus the disease may be clas-sified somewhere between a collagen vascular dis-ease and an infectious disease. Laboratory findings and clinical features of Ka-wasaki disease suggest a bacterial infection. How-ever, bacteria have not been discovered. Further-more, use of antibiotics has been ineffective, and clinical trials with use of glucocorticoids, which were originally believed to be effective, have been found to possibly increase the risk of development of coronary artery aneurysms. Steroids may cause aggregation of thrombocytes within an aneurysm. Aspirin has been the most suitable agent for treatment of Kawasaki disease because of the antiinflammatomy and antithrombotic effects associated with it. Aspirin was the most common agent used before treatment with high-dose gamma globulin was initiated. At present, therapy involves mainly aspirin and high-dose gamma globulin. Previously, the dose of gamma globulin administered was 400 mg/kg! day for 4 or 5 days. However, since hospital stays are shortened in some cases, and because gamma globulin is more effective, the current regimen is 2 g/kg administered in one dose. It has not been de-termined why gamma globulin is effective; however, it …