Talk:Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Untitled
This article is simply too technical for a lay audience and, in its present state, would be more suited to a medical textbook. It is jargon-heavy and assumes far too much prior knowledge. 217.155.20.163 23:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Risk Stratification nonsense
"Presence of 1 of these indicates severe disease (5-year mortality 26%) and 2 or more very severe disease (mortality 46%), while absence of any of these 5 indicates a milder case (mortality 11.9%)."

That seems to contradict itself fairly massively, I suspect someone has attempted to summarise the source too heavily and missed some important element. As I don't have access to pubmed, or the expertise to really interpret the contents, I can't help. Someone needs to correct, or erase, the section.

merge
Yes, Churg-Strauss needs to be merged with Churg-strauss. They're the same, except for the capitalization of the s. I'd do it now if I had the know-how. Cajolingwilhelm 01:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

LTA
Leukotriene antagonists have been linked with CSS. This is probably due to steroid withdrawal. An anon added a 1997 report about this, but since then there have been many reports weakening the association.

The latest review, in French:

The article needs substantial rewriting at the moment. JFW | T@lk  07:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

What are the symptoms of Churg-Strauss
this article needs a section about symptoms, preferably by a doctor or researcher (not me) who knows what they're talking about.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:46, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

layman's terms?
why is it all these medical/medicine wikipedia pages are so hard to understand? I came here for general information on this syndrome and can't understand a thing I am reading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.81.53.229 (talk) 20:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

What causes it?
This article really needs more about the cause of the syndrome. Please improve!

As a Doctor and a patient with this condition - as far as I'm aware (I don't specialise in rhematological disorders such as this however) there isn't currently a known cause and therefore that would clearly be why there is not a section dedicated to it. You can just look at patient information sites such as http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/churg-strauss-syndrome/basics/causes/con-20028895 and see it states "The exact cause of Churg-Strauss syndrome is unknown.". I've read 100s of papers on this disease and there have been a range of hypothesis put forward but considering the scope and the lack of evidence behind most of these I think it stands to not include a causative section as it simply is not known. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.5.73.198 (talk) 01:10, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Overlap of eosinophilia causes
High eosinophils can be caused by so many other things. Look at the criteria for assuming CSS and each one can be explained by some other cause. Viral, parasitic, etc.