Endomyocardial complications of the Churg-Strauss syndrome.
Although many similarities exist between the Churg-Strauss syndrome and the hypereosinophilic syndrome, these two disorders have hitherto been characterized by different types of cardiac disease. Two cases of the Churg-Strauss syndrome are described where the typical endomyocardial lesion of the hypereosinophilic syndrome dominated the clinical picture.
D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications