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The boy is still hospitalized, his condition is stable but there is concern among doctors for the cardiac affection that registers, “since what this disease does is cause inflammation of the heart and coronary arteries,” said the woman.
The illness
Dr. Elkin Sánchez, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of La Salle, explains that Kawasaki is an autoimmune disease that produces hyper inflammation in many organs of the body, specifically in the blood vessels.
He maintains that the retina can also be affected and that “what concerns pediatricians the most is inflammation of the coronary arteries of the heartBecause this can affect cardiac function. “
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He says that the causes of this disease are not yet known and that it cannot be stated categorically that COVID causes Kawasaki disease “Until epidemiological studies come out and the probability of causality between COVID and Kawasaki increases.”
In recent weeks, cases of this disease have been reported in different parts of the world, whose name comes from the Japanese pediatrician, Tomisaku Kawasaki, who in 1960 described this disease.
