[Sudden death of a young asthmatic patient--allergic granulomatous angiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome)].

Abstract

Churg-Strauss syndrome has three main criterions: 1) severe asthma with fever attacks, 2) extra- and intravascular granulomatous proliferations of epitheloid and giant cells, 3) inflammatory infiltrates rich in eosinophilic leukocytes. All these features were given in the case of a 19-year-old woman, who died suddenly. This paper deals with the morphological findings of the forensic autopsy.