Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile illness, also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. It predominantly affects children between the ages of six months and two years, and usually less than five years of age. Asian children are at higher risk due to genetic predisposition. The male-female ratio is 1.5:1. Males are more frequently affected [...]

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Initial Presentation and History A 21-year-old gravida 3 para 1111 African-American female returned to a community hospital emergency department one week postdischarge after having been hospitalized for five days with the working diagnosis of toxic shock syndrome, but she never fulfilled the criteria of multisystem involvement. At the time of initial presentation, she was four [...]

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