Cardiology · Cardiology / Rheumatologic cardiology
Churg–Strauss syndrome
also: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Small-vessel vasculitis with asthma and eosinophilia, often affecting the heart.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Rheumatologic cardiology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- HLA-DQ, HLA-DRB4
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Etiology & mechanism
ANCA and eosinophil-mediated injury.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (8)
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3 shared
Hypereosinophilic syndrome
eosinophilia, heart failure, neuropathy
2 shared
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eosinophilia, neuropathy
2 shared
McLeod syndrome
cardiomyopathy, neuropathy
1 shared
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neuropathy
1 shared
Anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery
heart failure
1 shared
Barth syndrome with neurological involvement
cardiomyopathy
1 shared
Carvajal syndrome
heart failure
1 shared
Chediak–Higashi syndrome
neuropathy
1 shared
Chédiak–Higashi syndrome
neuropathy
1 shared
Chorea-acanthocytosis
neuropathy
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