research in Churg-Strauss

[Marian M. (Archiv)]

Dr. Reinhold-Keller,

I am a css patient since 8-2004 and I am trying to find out where in Europe research is being done in causes and genetics of css and if I can find a European hospital where several css patients go. In the USA I have contact with Dr. M. Wechsler in Boston, who is doing research in css. He has collected blood samples from over 70 css patients from the USA, but he needs more. He would also like to have blood samples from European css patients, but there is a problem: blood products don't go through customs easily. We are trying to find a solution for this problem.

I have 3 questions:

1) Is there a research going on in the Bad Bramstedt Klinik in causes/ genetics etc. of css?

2) Is there a research going on in vasculitis in general?

3) How many css patients are there in the Bad Bramstedt Klinik?

You can answer me in English or German.

Thank You.

[PD Dr E Reinhold-Keller (Archiv)]

Hallo!

Das CSS wird sehr intensiv in Bad Bramstedt beforscht, dort sind mittlerweile ca. 150 CSS-Patienten in regelmäßiger Behandlung. Forschungsschwerpunkte sind von Ursachenforschung, z.B. auch Auslösung durch Medikamente, Untersuchung der am Entzündungsprozess besonders beteiligten Eosinophilen und natürlich die Therapie, incl. mit Interferonen und TNFalpha-Blockern.

Alles Gute

PD Dr Eva Reinhold-Keller