Churg-strauss syndrome with neurologic manifestations: Successful treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 583-585

  Ballanti, Eleonora ^a   Di Muzio, Gioia ^a   Novelli, Lucia ^a   Perricone, Carlo ^b   Perricone, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies; Churg strauss syndrome; Intravenous immunoglobulins; Neuropathy; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GABAPENTIN; HYDROMORPHONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYOGLOBIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; PARESTHESIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84871894180     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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