John Steinert Strauss (1926–2014)

A Case of Steinert Disease. Anesthesiologic Considerations

We briefly report the case of a female patient 46 y.o. affected by Myotonic muscular dystrophy (Steinert Disease) who underwent a laparotomic hysterectomy. A 46-year-old female (height 165 cm, weight 67 kg) presented to emergency department for metrorrhagia and anemization due to the presence of unknown multiple uterine myomas. She has hemoglobin level of 6, 6g/ dl and she was admitted to Gynec...

Churg-Strauss syndrome.

Strauss: a Specification Miner

Program verification tools (such as model checkers) are powerful tools for finding errors in programs. Unfortunately, these tools need lots of formal specifications of correct program behavior. Can we really expect programmers to write all of these specifications by hand? This dissertation is about Strauss, a tool I wrote to bring automation to specification-writing. By observing traces of work...

Churg-strauss syndrome.

First described in 1951 as an allergic and granulomatous angiitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a small-vessel vasculitis. Mean age at the time of diagnosis is approximately 50 years, with a sex ratio around 1. Asthma is the central feature of CSS and precedes the systemic manifestations in almost all cases, whereas 70% of the patients have maxillary sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, and/or sinu...

Churg-Strauss Syndrome

Pulmonary: asthma, pneumonitis and haemoptysis. Upper respiratory tract: allergic rhinitis, paranasal sinusitis, nasal polyposis. Cardiac involvement is common. [6]This includes heart failure, myocarditis and myocardial infarction. [7] Skin: purpura, skin nodules, leukocytoclastic angiitis with palpable purpura, livedo reticularis, urticaria, necrotic bullae and digital ischaemia. Renal: glomer...