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In 1967 Japanese pediatrician Tomisaku Kawasaki (1925–) published his landmark article titled in English “Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children: clinical observations of 50 cases” (Fig. 1a) [1, 2]. The title was descriptive in that it included the five main clinical features found in this novel disease (Fig. 1b). A variety of terms have been used to define this condition including Kawasaki fever, mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS), and currently Kawasaki disease [3]. It is perhaps more aptly referred to as a disease rather than syndrome since the latter represents a collection of signs and symptoms rather than distinct clinical findings. As he stated in his manuscript [2]: