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Prior to this it was known as Churg–Strauss syndrome, named after Jacob Churg and Lotte Strauss, who first published about the syndrome in 1951 using the term allergic granulomatosis to describe it. [3] It is a type of systemic necrotizing vasculitis. Effective treatment of EGPA requires suppression of the immune system with medication.
The disease is still sometimes confused with lethal midline granuloma and lymphomatoid granulomatosis, both malignant lymphomas. [ 34 ] The full clinical picture was first presented by Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), a German pathologist , in two reports in 1936 and 1939, leading to the eponymous name Wegener's granulomatosis or Wegener ...
Leukotriene receptor antagonist-associated Churg–Strauss syndrome may occur in asthma patients being treated with leukotriene receptor antagonists, occurring 2 days to 10 months after the antagonist has been started, with features of the syndrome including peripheral eosinophilia, pulmonary infiltrates, and less commonly neuropathy, sinusitis, and cardiomyopathy.
Jacob Churg [needs IPA] (16 July 1910, Daŭhinava, Russian Empire – 27 July 2005, New York City) was a Russian Empire-born Polish-American pathologist. Churg, together with Lotte Strauss , has given his name to Churg–Strauss syndrome, now known as eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis .
Lotte Strauss (15 April 1913 – 4 July 1985) was a German-American pathologist. [1] [2] She was born in Nuremberg, Germany. [1] Strauss, alongside Jacob Churg, attributed her name to Churg–Strauss syndrome, which is now known as eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis. [3] She was one of the founders of the Society for Pediatric ...
Chronic infantile neurologic cutaneous and articular syndrome; Chronic Lyme disease; Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome; Churg–Strauss syndrome; Chédiak–Higashi syndrome; Claude's syndrome; Clinically isolated syndrome; CLOVES syndrome; COACH syndrome; Cobb syndrome; Cockayne syndrome; Coffin–Lowry syndrome; Coffin–Siris ...
Clinical features may include constitutional symptoms like fever, arthralgia, myalgia, loss of appetite, weight loss and fatigue.A variety of organs can be affected, which causes a wide range of symptoms such as cough, shortness of breath, hemoptysis (coughing up of blood), symptoms of kidney failure, skin manifestations (palpable purpura and livedo racemosa [1]), seizures or peripheral ...
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, previously known as Churg–Strauss syndrome Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title EGPA .