title: Acute congestive heart failure secondary to an unusual underlying cause.
abstract: We report a patient who presented with non-specific features and rapidly developed multisystem disease as a result of Chrug-Strauss syndrome, a rare diffuse primary vasculitis. This case report highlights the importance of considering primary vasculitides as a differential diagnosis in patients presenting with multiple organ involvement as early specific therapy in such cases has shown to change the outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology, St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, UK KT16 0PZ.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ravindran
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Barman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D015267:Churg-Strauss Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged