My Heart
Mucosal involvement like dry chapped lips and strawberry tongue
Hands and feet with edema and desquamation (late in the disease)
Eyes non purulent bilateral conjunctivitis
Adenopathy often cervical unilateral > 1.5 cm lymph nodes enlargement
Rash usually truncal and pleomorphic
Temperature non remitting fever for at least five days
Mucosal involvement like dry chapped lips and strawberry tongue
Hands and feet with edema and desquamation (late in the disease)
Eyes non purulent bilateral conjunctivitis
Adenopathy often cervical unilateral > 1.5 cm lymph nodes enlargement
Rash usually truncal and pleomorphic
Temperature non remitting fever for at least five days
and the whole statement "My Heart" refers to the coronary artery aneurysm seen in children
The presence of fever + four of the other five criteria constitutes typical Kawasaki disease
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