title: [Sudden death of a young asthmatic patient--allergic granulomatous angiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome)].
abstract: Churg-Strauss syndrome has three main criterions: 1) severe asthma with fever attacks, 2) extra- and intravascular granulomatous proliferations of epitheloid and giant cells, 3) inflammatory infiltrates rich in eosinophilic leukocytes. All these features were given in the case of a 19-year-old woman, who died suddenly. This paper deals with the morphological findings of the forensic autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin, Universität Innsbruck, Osterreich.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tributsch
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rabl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ambach
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fend
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000473:pathology*; D002423:Cause of Death; D015267:Churg-Strauss Syndrome / Q000473:pathology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000473:pathology*; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Plötzlicher Tod einer jungen Asthmatikerin--allergisch-granulomatöse Angiitis (Churg-Strauss-Syndrom).