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REPORT OF HAIR LOSS AS A SYMPTOM OF KAWASAKI DISEASE

Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile vasculitis of childhood. The cause of the illness remain unknown but clinical and epidemiologic feature strongly support an infectious origin. Kawasaki disease cause a severe vasculitis of all blood vessel with predilection for the coronary arteries. Hair loss as a feature of disease has not been reported in medical literature. The patient was a 26 months old boy with high grade fever for 12 days, oral lesion, skier rash, bilateral conjunctivitis, arthralgia and otalgia who was admitted with impression of kawasaki in pediatric ward of Yasuj Etnam .cajjad hospital. Sedimentaion rate above 100 and platelet couple above 1000000 was reported. Hair loss was started acutely and insidiously in scalp area since first day of admission. All signs of kawasaki and hair loss disappeared with starting of IV immunoglobolin.