Difference between revisions of "Medical lung diseases"

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