[Churg-Strauss syndrome--case report].
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic vasculitis, that essentially affects medium-sized vessels, involves multiple organs and in the majority of cases is related to asthma and eosinophilia. The authors make a review of this disease and discuss its differential diagnosis presenting the case of a woman with asthma that at the age of 65 is diagnosed with CSS.
Oliveira
Susana
S
Hospital de Pulido Valente, Lisboa.
Mendonça
Catarina
C
Ambar
José Eduardo
JE
Mendes
Berta
B
D000368:Aged; D015267:Churg-Strauss Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans