富作 川崎 (1925 - 2020)

Born 7 Feb 1925 in 日本東京府

Died 5 Jun 2020 at age 95 in 日本東京都

Biography

富作 川崎 is Notable.

Kawasaki Tomisaku was born in Tokyo on 7 February 1925; his parents are currently unknown at this time. He received a Doctor of Medicine from Chiba Medical University in 1948. In January 1961, he encountered a previously unknown disease while examining a four-year old child. Tomisaku first described the disease in Japanese in 1967, and his description was translated into English in 1974. The disease, now named Kawasaki disease after Tomisaku, was originally thought to be a simple disease, but it is now known that aneurysms occurred in the coronary arteries of some of those affected. Tomisaku died at a hospital in Tokyo on 5 June 2020, over 59 years after his discovery of his namesake disease.

Sources

• https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN6B42FZN6BULBJ00H.html

See also:

• Wikipedia: Tomisaku Kawasaki
• Wikidata: Item Q468380, en:Wikipedia