Kawasaki Disease: Paraclinical Evolution and Clinical Outcomes of Iranian Patients

License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor, It is well known that Kawasaki disease (KD) is a small to medium vessel vasculitis that affects children six months to four-years-of-age. Diagnosis is based on clinical criteria mostly from the affected skin and mucosa (1). It was very interesting that Sedighi et al. and Soleimani et al. in their recent publications in the Journal of Comprehensive Pe-diatrics revealed the clinical characteristics of Kawasaki disease, and the liver and renal paraclinical abnormali-ties, respectively, of this condition in the Iranian popula-tion (2, 3). In the study of Sedighi et al., 74 patients less than five-years-of-age were discharged with a diagnosis of KD, from 2004-2013, at the Besat Hopsital, Hamadan. Among thes