The Causes And Diagnosis Of Kawasaki Disease

Immune Response

Kawasaki disease causes immune system cells to flood to the areas the disease is affecting, especially arterial walls. This causes the arteries to become inflamed and can cause long-term damage, resulting in an aneurysm. Basically, the immune response to Kawasaki disease is too strong. As discussed earlier, the strong response gene is associated with individuals of Asian descent. Those who have this gene will have a stronger response to Kawasaki disease, which increases the overall severity of the disease. Of course, more studies are still being done on these immune, environmental, ethnic, and genetic causes of Kawasaki disease.

Keep reading to learn about how Kawasaki disease is diagnosed now.