Small bowel involvement documented by capsule endoscopy in Churg-Strauss syndrome

  • Birane Beye
  • Gilles Lesur
  • Pierre Claude
  • Lionel Martzolf
  • Pierre Kieffer
  • Daniel Sondag
Keywords: Churg-Strauss Syndrome, small intestine involvement, video capsule endoscopy

Abstract

Churg-Strauss syndrome is a small and medium vessel vasculitis and is also known as allergic granulomatous angiitis. Gastrointestinal involvement is common in patients with Churg-Strauss syndrome (20-50%). The  most common symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhoea and occasionally gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation. We present a case of Churg-Strauss syndrome with small bowel lesions documented by video  capsule endoscopy.

Key words: Churg-Strauss Syndrome, small intestine involvement, video capsule endoscopy

Published
2016-03-17
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Articles

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