We report on a case of Churg-Strauss syndrome in a 30 year old male with a history of perennial rhinitis. The syndrome began nine months earlier with clinico-radiological features typical of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. Diagnosis of vasculitis was made by skin biopsy, and at that time there was multisystemic involvement with pulmonary, cardiac, renal, cutaneous and muscular disease, and righ...

Abstract: In pointfree topology, the point-finite covers introduced by Dowker and Strauss do not behave similarly to their classical counterparts with respect to transitive quasi-uniformities, contrarily to what happens with other familiar types of interior-preserving covers. The purpose of this paper is to remedy this by modifying the definition of Dowker and Strauss. We present arguments to j...

I read with interest the case report by Tuggey and Hosker where Churg-Strauss syndrome was associated with the use of montelukast in an asthmatic patient in whom there was no recent exposure to oral corticosteroid. However, it is worth noting that the patient was using a high dose of inhaled fluticasone propionate (1.5 mg/day) via a large volume spacer prior to the introduction of montelukast. ...

Shanghai, China, postulated that MVP may have been the result of structural damage and functional derangement caused by the underlying vasculitis of BD. Whereas the association of MVP and BD may be either causally related or coincidental, it is important to keep in mind that, although BD is relatively rare in the United States, MVP is very common. BD occurs most frequently in Japan and in the M...

A 57-year-old man with a history of more than 10 years of bronchial asthma and chronic sinusitis complained of double vision which developed 18 days after cardiac tamponade with eosinophil-rich fluid (eosinophils 30%). He had oculomotor nerve palsy, and a blood test revealed eosinophilia (12,700/mm(3)) and elevation of both C-reactive protein and rheumatoid factor. He was diagnosed as having Ch...