Difference between revisions of "Medical lung diseases"

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 ==Churg-Strauss syndrome==
-*AKA ''allergic granulomatous angiitis''.<ref name=emedicine333492>[http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/333492-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/333492-overview]</ref>
+{{Main|Churg-Strauss syndrome}}
-===General===
-Defining features - memory device ''GAFE'':
-*'''G'''ranulomata.
-*'''A'''sthma.
-*'''F'''ever.
-*'''E'''osinophilia.
-Notes:
-*Similar to ''[[Wegener's granulomatosis]]'' (classically c-ANCA +ve) and ''microscopic polyangiitis''.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/334024-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/334024-overview]. Accessed on: 22 January 2011.</ref>
 ===Microscopic===
 Features:
 *Small vessel [[vasculitis]].
+*Abundant eosinophils.
+*[[Granuloma]]s.
 =Lung transplant pathology=