Kawasaki Disease

• ​Kawasaki Disease (KD) (also known as Kawasaki Syndrome) is a rare form of vasculitis which affects children and is characterised by inflammation of the medium sized blood vessels throughout the body.
  
  
• The coronary arteries (arteries supplying the heart muscle) are the commonest arteries affected.
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• The main concern in children is that inflammation of the coronary arteries can lead to aneurysms (widening and weakening of the artery wall) and later can lead to narrowing or stenosis reducing the blood supply to the heart.

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Kawasaki
Patient Support Groups

FRA - France
Association France Vascularites

GBR - UNITED KINGDOM
- Vasculitis UK
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IRL - IRELAND
- VIA Vasculitis Ireland Awareness

NLD - Netherlands
- Vasculitis Stichting

Kawasaki
Hospitals
- hospitals with overall vasculitis expertise

Specific expertise in Kawasaki :

NLD - NETHERLANDS
​- AMC Amsterdam - Kawasaki center of expertise       (e-mail the centre here) 

Kawasaki
Specific Forums

Does not yet exist. If you are a patient: Why don/t YOU start it ??!!

Other forums: to be defined

Other expertise

EUR - EUROPE 
- EUVAS European Vasculitis Society
An open collaboration of physicians interested in research and education in vasculitis.