An aggressive and lethal course of Churg-Strauss syndrome with alveolar hemorrhage, intestinal perforation, cardiac failure and peripheral neuropathy

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 451-455

  Çiledaǧ, Aydin ^a   Deniz, Hülya ^a   Eledaǧ, Serpil ^a   Özkal, Canan ^a   Düzgün, Nurşen ^a   Erekul, Selim ^a   Karnak, Demet ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alveolar hemorrhage; Cardiomyopathy; Churg Strauss syndrome; Intestinal perforation

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOPROLOL; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC VASCULITIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART MURMUR; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE ULCER; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART FAILURE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 84857037535     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-009-1321-9     Document Type: Article

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