DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE CLINICAL COURSE IN PATEINTS WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND CHURG–STRAUSS SYNDROME ON THE BACKGROUND OF EOSINOPHILIA

It was summarized information about 75 patients. Among them 40 patients with bronchial athma with eosinophilia and 35 patients with Churg–Strauss syndrome. Comparison between asthma with eosinophilia and Churg–Strauss syndrome was characterized by the prevalence of polyvalent allergy, vesicular and erythematous-hemorrhagic lesions in patients with Churg–Strauss syndrome.

As compared with bronchial asthma with eosinophilia, the Churg–Strauss syndrome was characterized by more pronounced polyvalant allergy, prevalence of vesicular and erythematose and hemorrhagic appearance of skin rash, which merge; frequent hyperreactivity of bronchi, presence of hyperthermic, artritic, lymphadenopathic and neuropathic syndromes.