Cardiac involvement in Churg-Strauss syndrome

Arthritis and Rheumatism
Robert M DennertStephane Heymans

Abstract

Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare form of systemic vasculitis. Previous studies showing cardiac involvement in CSS patients were limited in the number of patients and were often based solely on clinical manifestations. The aim of the present study was to determine in detail the incidence of cardiac involvement in a large population of ambulatory CSS patients. Thirty-two consecutive patients with CSS in remission (mean +/- SD duration of disease between diagnosis and enrollment 6.1 +/- 5.8 years, mean +/- SD age 61 +/- 10 years) who were previously unaware of cardiac involvement were compared with 32 randomly selected age- and sex-matched control subjects, using clinical evaluation, electrocardiography (EKG), echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Detailed cardiac evaluation revealed a 62% prevalence of cardiac involvement in CSS patients compared with 3% in controls (P < 0.001), with clinical symptoms in 26% and 3%, respectively (P = 0.009), EKG abnormalities in 66% and 3%, respectively (P < 0.001), and echocardiographic defects in 50% and 3%, respectively (P < 0.001). Cardiac MRI detected cardiac manifestations in 62% of CSS patients. In the presence of cardiac MRI abnormalities, echocardiography ...Continue Reading

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