PMID: 20648450Jul 22, 2010Paper

Not only after myocardial infarction - left intraventricular thrombus in the Churg-Strauss syndrome

Kardiologia polska
Magdalena LipczyńskaPiotr Hoffman

Abstract

Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare systemic disease characterized by necrotising vasculitis and peripheral eosinophilia. Cardiac involvement is found in up to 64% of patients and is given a high rank among the causes of morbidity and mortality. We presented a case of 26 year-old male with Churg-Strauss syndrome and left intraventricular thrombus.

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