{"id":94,"date":"2009-02-28T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/reukawasaki\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:11:56","slug":"reukawasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/reukawasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Kawasaki Disease (KD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kawasaki disease (KD) is a childhood vasculitis affecting the medium-sized muscular arteries, mainly the coronary arteries. The hallmark of KD is fever lasting 5 days or more, counting the day of fever onset as day 1, in addition to 4 or 5 of the principal clinical criteria: cracking of lips or strawberry tongue, nonpurulent conjunctivitis, rash, erythema and edema of the hands and feet, and large unilateral cervical lymphadenopathy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Criteria for the diagnosis of KD<\/strong><br \/>\nClassic KD is diagnosed in the presence of fever for at least 5 days together with at least 4 of the 5 following principal clinical features.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Erythema and cracking of lips, strawberry tongue, or erythema of oral and pharyngeal mucosa<\/li>\n<li>Bilateral bulbar conjunctival injection without exudate<\/li>\n<li>Rash: maculopapular, diffuse erythroderma, or erythema multiforme\u2013like<\/li>\n<li>Erythema and edema of the hands and feet in the acute phase<\/li>\n<li>Cervical lymphadenopathy (\u2265 1.5 cm in diameter), usually unilateral<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Taubert KA, Shulman ST. Kawasaki disease. Am Fam Physician. 1999 Jun;59(11):3093-102, 3107-8.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10392592\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stapp J, Marshall GS. Fulfillment of diagnostic criteria in Kawasaki disease. South Med J. 2000 Jan;93(1):44-7.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10653064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Curtis N. Kawasaki disease. BMJ. 1997 Aug 9;315(7104):322-3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/9270443\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Morishita KA, Goldman RD. Kawasaki disease recognition and treatment. Can Fam Physician. 2020 Aug;66(8):577-579. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32817030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: May 12, 2005<br \/>\nUpdate: Nov 05, 2021<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[16,15,14,51,50,2076,1070],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rheumatology","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-disease","tag-enfermedad","tag-kawasaki","tag-rheumatology"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}