Bridge to recovery in a patient with Churg-Strauss myocarditis by long-term percutaneous support with microaxial blood pump

摘要

Allergic granulomatous angiitis depicts the pathological basis of the so-called Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune process characterised by asthma or allergic rhinitis, symptomatic vasculitis and prominent eosinophilia. The myocardium is affected in two-thirds of cases, associated with a mortality rate ＞ 50% when the lung or gastro-intestinum is afflicted.