1. Allergic Angiitis of Churg and Strauss Syndrome
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Jeremy Road, R. MacFadyen, V. Tron, and M. Keshmiri
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Chemotherapy ,Allergy ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Respiratory disease ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,medicine.disease ,respiratory tract diseases ,Surgery ,Allergic Angiitis ,Methylprednisolone ,Prednisone ,Anesthesia ,Pulse methylprednisolone ,medicine ,High doses ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Our patient presented with widespread airspace consolidation. He was a steroid-dependent asthmatic receiving moderate doses of corticosteroid therapy. Open lung biopsy showed allergic angiitis of Churg and Strauss syndrome. The patient continued to deteriorate on high doses of prednisone. He was subsequently given four pulses of intravenous methylprednisolone with dramatic clearing noted on x-ray film and resolution of his shunt.
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- 1987
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