Prominent pericardial and myocardial lesions in the Churg-Strauss syndrome (allergic granulomatosis and angiitis).

Abstract

The Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare multisystem disease of unknown cause characterised by asthma, appreciable blood and tissue eosinophilia, angiitis, and necrotising granulomas.' The clinical features are protean but cardiac lesions received little emphasis in the largest clinical series of patients so far reported.2 We report three patients with the Churg-Strauss syndrome who had prominent pericar- dial and myocardial lesions and also some previously unde- scribed clinical features.