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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.
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 ...
Jacob Churg [needs IPA] (16 July 1910, Daŭhinava, Russian Empire – 27 July 2005, New York City) was a Polish-American pathologist. Churg, together with Lotte Strauss , has given his name to Churg–Strauss syndrome, now known as eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis .
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.
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), formerly known as Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] after German physician Friedrich Wegener, is a rare, long ...
Churg–Strauss syndrome: C/S: Caesarean section: C&S: culture and sensitivity (antibiogram) CsA: cyclosporin A CSA: Controlled Substances Act: C-section: cesarean section: CSF: cerebrospinal fluid colony-stimulating factor: CSME: clinically significant macular edema: CSOM: chronic suppurative otitis media: CSPC: community specialist palliative ...
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An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...