of Churg–Strauss vasculitis (CSV) is 2.5 per 100 000 people per year. It is characterized by pulmonary and systemic necrotizing vasculitis, vascular or extravascular granuloma, eosinophilia and tissue infiltration by eosinophils, and nonspecific elevation in the immunoglobulin E level. It is also found in those with asthma and allergic rhinitis or sinonasal polyposis. Coarse granular and perinu...

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) also known as Churg- Strauss syndrome is a systemic small- and medium-vessel necrotizing vasculitis, characterized by extravascular granulomas, eosinophilia. Treatment primarily corticosteroids and, for severe disease, addition of other immunosuppressive agents. Here, we want to present 57-year-old male patient who was diagnosed EGPA develope...

BACKGROUND F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) accumulates in inflammatory cells due to an increased metabolic rate. Therefore, FDG positron emission tomography (PET) represents a promising imaging technique in patients with vasculitis. The aim of this study was to assess the value of FDG PET in the diagnosis of different types of vasculitis. METHODS The results of FDG PET performed because of susp...

Vasculitis has historically been poorly defined and the histological and clinical manifestations are protean, further complicating the diagnostic process. The definitive diagnosis is made by evidence of histologic effacement of a vessel with associated transumural inflammatory infiltrate of that vessel. Vasculitis can be a primary process or secondary to disseminated intravascular coagulation, ...

Sirs, Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare disorder characterized by asthma, eosinophilia and systemic vasculitis (1). Three different phases can usually be recognized in CSS: asthma and atopic allergies such as rhinitis may precede of months, and sometimes of several years, the development of an eosinophilic infiltrative disease with eosinophilic pneumonia or gastro-enteritis followed by the...

Although vasculitis involving the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is an uncommon occurrence, occasionally vasculitis can present as haemorrhagic infarction or ischaemia for which a length of bowel is removed. Invariably, the appropriate clinical history is not forthcoming, or vasculitis is not clinically suspected. The purpose of this overview is to provide the practising gastrointestinal (GI) pat...

Ocular involvement in Churg-Strauss syndrome is infrequent. We describe the case of a 54-year-old woman with eosinophilia and involvement of the respiratory tract, skin, and peripheral nervous system, fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology criteria for Churg-Strauss syndrome. The patient presented with acute, painless vision loss in her right eye. Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO...