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===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Medium vessel disease. | *Medium vessel disease. | ||
*Classically afflicts the coronary arteries of children. | *Classically afflicts the coronary arteries of children - usu. less than 5 years old. | ||
**May lead to coronary artery aneurysms.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Taubert | first1 = KA. | last2 = Shulman | first2 = ST. | title = Kawasaki disease. | journal = Am Fam Physician | volume = 59 | issue = 11 | pages = 3093-102, 3107-8 | month = Jun | year = 1999 | doi = | PMID = 10392592 |URL = http://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/0601/p3093.html}}</ref> | |||
Clinical features ''Warm CREAM'':<ref>URL: [http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/return_browse.cfm?&system=Other%2FMiscellaneous&discipline=Pathology&browse=1 http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/return_browse.cfm?&system=Other%2FMiscellaneous&discipline=Pathology&browse=1]. Accessed on: 14 January 2012.</ref> | Clinical features - mnemonic ''Warm CREAM'':<ref>URL: [http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/return_browse.cfm?&system=Other%2FMiscellaneous&discipline=Pathology&browse=1 http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/cgi-bin/return_browse.cfm?&system=Other%2FMiscellaneous&discipline=Pathology&browse=1]. Accessed on: 14 January 2012.</ref> | ||
*'''Warm''' = fever. | *'''Warm''' = fever. | ||
*'''C'''onjunctivitis, non-exudative. | *'''C'''onjunctivitis, non-exudative. | ||