Asystolic cardiac arrest with chest pain as initial features of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome)

Transient severe precapillary pulmonary hypertension caused by eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis in a patient diagnosed with asthma

“…Even though EGPA patients usually show slightly higher RVSP than healthy controls [1], cases with severe PH confirmed with RHC are not well documented [2], [3]. It seems that reported patient shows another complication, not directly related to myocarditis, common in ANCA-negative cases [4] predominantly manifesting with arrythmias and heart failure [5]. We think that pulmonary vasculitis possibly combined with parenchymal lung involvement caused precapillary PH.…”