Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare systemic vasculitis occurring in patients with asthma and blood eosinophilia. Lungs, skin, and nervous system are the most common sites of involvement, although many other organs are affected frequently. The diagnosis often is established from clinical findings or biopsy of extrapulmonary sites, and lung biopsy is performed infrequently. The classic pathologic f...

We report on a case of Churg-Strauss syndrome in a 30 year old male with a history of perennial rhinitis. The syndrome began nine months earlier with clinico-radiological features typical of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. Diagnosis of vasculitis was made by skin biopsy, and at that time there was multisystemic involvement with pulmonary, cardiac, renal, cutaneous and muscular disease, and righ...

PURPOSE Retinal vascular abnormalities are rare in patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome. We present the findings in a patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome who developed bilateral central retinal artery occlusion simultaneously. METHODS Case report. RESULTS A 68-year-old Japanese man developed acute bilateral vision decrease to counting finger in the right eye and hand movements in the left e...