Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide

The heart is involved in up to 50% of all patients with Churg–Strauss syndrome, but vasculitis of the coronary arteries has only been rarely documented. We present a young patient with severe coronary aneurysms and stenotic lesions due to a Churg–Strauss vasculitis. Prompt therapy with prednisone an...

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Autores principales: Riksen, Niels P., Gehlmann, Helmut, Brouwer, Annemarie E., van Deuren, Marcel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20349259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1428-0
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author Riksen, Niels P.
Gehlmann, Helmut
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van Deuren, Marcel
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description The heart is involved in up to 50% of all patients with Churg–Strauss syndrome, but vasculitis of the coronary arteries has only been rarely documented. We present a young patient with severe coronary aneurysms and stenotic lesions due to a Churg–Strauss vasculitis. Prompt therapy with prednisone and cyclophosphamide resulted in the complete resolution of all lesions.
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spelling pubmed-35948142013-03-14 Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide Riksen, Niels P. Gehlmann, Helmut Brouwer, Annemarie E. van Deuren, Marcel Clin Rheumatol Case Report The heart is involved in up to 50% of all patients with Churg–Strauss syndrome, but vasculitis of the coronary arteries has only been rarely documented. We present a young patient with severe coronary aneurysms and stenotic lesions due to a Churg–Strauss vasculitis. Prompt therapy with prednisone and cyclophosphamide resulted in the complete resolution of all lesions. Springer-Verlag 2010-03-28 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3594814/ /pubmed/20349259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1428-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title_full Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title_fullStr Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title_full_unstemmed Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title_short Complete remission of coronary vasculitis in Churg–Strauss Syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
title_sort complete remission of coronary vasculitis in churg–strauss syndrome by prednisone and cyclophosphamide
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