title: [Clinical course and features in acute stage of Kawasaki disease].
abstract: Kawasaki disease is diagnosed as a syndrome by definitive 6 principle signs and suspi cious clinical course. Health professionals are requested to know a common knowledge for those characteristics. In Japanese diagnostic guideline, fever is regarded as one of six prin ciple signs because some cases with five principle signs other than fever also developed coronary artery aneurysm. Japanese diagnostic guideline describes that duration of fever do not need 5 days or longer, if the fever resolved before the 5th day by early treatment such as intravenous immunoglobulin. Guideline warns that some incomplete cases also develop coronary artery complications.
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ayusawa
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013997:Time Factors