Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Sandeep Kumar Kar

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• Case Report
  Association Between Churg Strauss Syndrome and Vitamin D Deficiency: A Myth or Truth? A Rare Case Report
  Author(s): Sandeep Kumar Kar, Rajat Choudhuri, Amartya Das and Nairita MayurSandeep Kumar Kar, Rajat Choudhuri, Amartya Das and Nairita Mayur
  
  Churg-Strauss syndrome is a vasculitis of medium to small sized vessels. Diagnosis is mainly clinical with findings of asthma, eosinophilia, rhinosinusitis and signs of vasculitis in major organs. Vitamin D is thought to be important for maintaining normal function of many non-skeletal tissues such as muscle (including heart muscle), immune function, and inflammation as well as cell proliferation and differentiation. The authors are reporting a case of 56 yrs. old male, a known patient of reactive airway disease who was diagnosed to have Churg Strauss Syndrome associated with severe Vitamin D deficiency and degenerative bone disease. There is a deficiency of adequate documentation of this syndrome along with Vitamin D deficiency in the present medical literature available. .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000625

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