Churg-Strauss syndrome MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Chandrakala Yannam, MD [2]

Overview

Patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis on cardiac MRI may show myocardial and subendocardial fibrosis.

Subendocardial fibrosis, myocardial fibrosis may be seen in cardiac MRI.^[1]^[2]

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↑ Szczeklik W, Miszalski-Jamka T, Mastalerz L, Sokolowska B, Dropinski J, Banys R, Hor KN, Mazur W, Musial J (2011). “Multimodality assessment of cardiac involvement in Churg-Strauss syndrome patients in clinical remission”. Circ. J. 75 (3): 649–55. PMID 21139253.