Tomisaku Kawasaki

Tomisaku Kawasaki (川崎 富作 Kawasaki Tomisaku?, born February 7, 1925) is a Japanese pediatrician.[1]

Kawasaki disease is named after him. He published a description in Japanese in 1967, and a description in English in 1974.[2][3][4]

He first observed the condition in 1961.[5]

He studied at Chiba University. In Japan, there were several activities of etiology research groups, but there has been no established theory. He has been active in this field, and established "Japan Kawasaki Disease Research Center" in 1990 and later a non-profit organization "Japan Disease Research Center".From "Clinicians' Battles, Doctors whose names are found in the disease, (2000), edit. Itakura E. Medical Sense, Tokyo, in Japanese.[6]

References

  1. ^ doctor/3259 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ "Kawasaki Disease: Overview - eMedicine". http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/352497-overview. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
  3. ^ Kawasaki T (March 1967). "[Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children]" (in Japanese). Arerugi 16 (3): 178–222. PMID 6062087. 
  4. ^ Kawasaki T, Kosaki F, Okawa S, Shigematsu I, Yanagawa H (September 1974). "A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan". Pediatrics 54 (3): 271–6. PMID 4153258. 
  5. ^ "Puzzling Peril for the Young". TIME Magazine 116 (8). August 25, 1980. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949010,00.html. Retrieved 2009-01-24 
  6. ^ "Clinicians' Battles, Doctors whose names are found in the disease, (2000), edit. Itakura E. Medical Sense, Tokyo, in Japanese