Prediction of intravenous immunoglobulin-resistant Kawasaki disease: a research hotspot.

Kawasaki disease(KD)is an acute and self-limited febrile dis-ease characterized by fever,polymorphic rash,bulbar conjunctival congestion,redness of the lip mucosa,unilateral cervical lym-phadenopathy,erythema,and edema of the extremities.KD was reported first by Tomisaku Kawasaki,a Japanese scholar,in 1967[1].Since then,the disease has been reported worldwide,with sig-nificant differences observed in its incidence in different regions.