Intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhage resulting from necrotizing vasculitis of the choroid plexus in a patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome
Chang, Y.; Kargas, S.A.; Goates, J.J.; Horoupian, D.S.
Clinical Neuropathology 12(2): 84-87
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0722-5091 PMID: 8097441 Document Number: 409635
Neurologic symptoms are common in patients with the Churg-Strauss syndrome and often manifest as a peripheral neuropathy of the mononeuritis multiplex type secondary to vasculitis. Reports of central nervous system involvement is less frequent and ranges from psychiatric disturbances to cerebral hemorrhage. We report the first case of pathologically documented vasculitis involving the choroid plexus causing massive and fatal intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhages in a 47-year-old patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome.