title: Small bowel involvement documented by capsule endoscopy in Churg-Strauss syndrome.
abstract: Churg-Strauss syndrome is a small and medium vessel vasculitis and is also known as allergic granulomatous angiitis. Gastrointestinal involvement is common in patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (20-50%). The most common symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhoea and occasionally gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation. We present a case of Churg-Strauss syndrome with small bowel lesions documented by video capsule endoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, 9 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92100 Boulogne, France ; UFR 2S, Université Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Sénégal.
authors.forename: Birane
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beye
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, 9 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92100 Boulogne, France.
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lesur
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier, 20 Avenue Réné Laennec, 68100 Mulhouse, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Claude
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier, 20 Avenue Réné Laennec, 68100 Mulhouse, France.
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martzolf
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier, 20 Avenue Réné Laennec, 68100 Mulhouse, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kieffer
authors.affiliation: Service de Gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier, 20 Avenue Réné Laennec, 68100 Mulhouse, France.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sondag
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D053704:Capsule Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D015267:Churg-Strauss Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male
keywords: Churg-Strauss Syndrome; small intestine involvement; video capsule endoscopy