Kawasaki disease
human disease in which blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed
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Summary
Kawasaki disease is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,094 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Tomisaku Kawasaki[3]
- Named after: Tomisaku Kawasaki[4]
- Subclass of: lymphadenitis[5], immune disorder[6], predominantly medium-vessel vasculitis[7]
- Commons category: Kawasaki disease[8]
- Symptoms and signs: strawberry tongue[9], lymphadenopathy[10], fever[11], diarrhea[12], inflammation[13]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[14]
- ICD-9-CM: 446.1[15]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34825[16]
- Health specialty: immunology[17], pediatrician[18]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: infliximab[19], aspirin[20], immunoglobulin therapy[21]
- Genetic association: PPM1L[22], MED30[23], FCGR2A[24], BTBD1[25], PELI1[26], NAALADL2[27], ZFHX3[28], ITPKC[29]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13378[30], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13378[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[32]
Why It Matters
Kawasaki disease has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]