Severe congestive heart failure as the main symptom of eosinophilic granulomatosis and polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome).

We present a patient with asthma and eosinophilia in whom EGPA was diagnosed in the course of acute recurrent substernal chest pain, with subsequent signs of cardiac insufficiency.
PMID: 25339570 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Pneumonologia i Alergologia Polska - October 27, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Załęska J, Wiatr E, Zych J, Szopiński J, Oniszh K, Kober J, Piotrowska-Kownacka D, Roszkowski-Śliż K Tags: Pneumonol Alergol Pol Source Type: research