KAWASAKI DISEASE

n. acute vasculitis that occurs mainly in children under 5 years of age that was first described in the late 1960's by a Japanese pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki that can cause coronary artery aneurysms or heart attacks and sudden death in children (characterize by a fever that lasts more than 5 days, polymorphic rash, erythematous, dry, cracking lips, conjunctival injection, swelling of the hands and feet, irritability, adenopathy and a perineal desquamative rash)