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Classical Diagnostic Clinical Criteria According to
American Heart Association
Hence, based on the clinical criteria, American Heart Association (AHA) has
recommended that, to diagnose Kawasaki Disease: fever, persisting for 5 or more
days AND 4 out of the 5 principal clinical features that we have gone through just
now. These children must not have any other reasons to explain the fever. So this is
a diagnosis by exclusion. This is because measles can present similarly.
