Abstract
Kawasaki disease is a potentially life-threatening inflammatory vasculitis that mainly affects children younger than 5 years of age. Disease epidemiology suggests that one or more infectious triggers1 result in an exaggerated inflammatory response in susceptible people,2 although no causative agent has yet been identified. Coronary artery aneurysms occur in 20–30% of untreated patients, and Kawasaki disease is now the most common cause of childhood acquired heart disease in industrialised settings.
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