Kawasaki disease historical perspective

Historical Perspective

The Historical data on Kawasaki is described below:

• In 1961, Dr. Tomisaku Kawasaki saw his first case of Kawasaki disease.
• In 1967, Kawasaki published his first report of Kawasaki disease in Japanese.
• In 1960s, pathologist Noboru Tanaka and pediatrician Takajiro Yamamoto disputed the early assertion of Kawasaki that Kawasaki disease was a self-limited illness with no sequelae.
• In 1970, first Japanese nationwide survey of Kawasaki disease was conducted and 10 autopsy cases of sudden cardiac death after Kawasaki disease were documented.
• In 1973, at the University of Hawaii hospital, pathologist Eunice Larson, in collaboration with Benjamin Landing at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, retrospectively established a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in a 1971 autopsy case.
• In 1974, Tomisaku Kawasaki published the first English-language report of 50 patients with Kawasaki disease.
• By 1974, the link between Kawasaki disease and coronary artery vasuclitis was well established.
• In 1976, he first cases of Kawasaki disease outside of Japan were reported in Hawaii.
• In 1988, the Committee on infectious diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics declared IVIG treatment as the recommended therapy for Kawasaki disease.
• In 2006 march, Kawasaki disease was mentioned in the television programs Nip/Tuck and Without a Trace In the episode All In of the TV series House, it was inexplicably mentioned as a possible diagnosis for a 6 year old boy that was admitted with bloody diarrhea and coordination problems, as well as an elderly woman with unexplained respiratory, cardiovascular and neural deficiencies. Maxie Jones, a fictional character on General Hospital suffers from it. According to John Travolta and Kelly Preston, their son Jett Travolta also suffers from the disease.