Short history of Kawasaki disease, clinical features (principal symptoms and other significant symptoms or findings), diagnosis, cardiovascular involvement, epidemiology. Pathological features (lesion of vessels and lesion of organs exclusive of vessels), comparison between infantile periarteritis nodosa (IPN)/Kawasaki disease and classic periarteritis nodosa (CPN), etiology, treatment and management of Kawasaki disease are described.
Keywords: Kawasaki Disease (KD); acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome(MCLS); coronary artery aneurysms; infantile periarteritis nodosa(IPN).