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The term culture-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are indigenously considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a systemic disorder characterized by asthma, transient pulmonary infiltrates, hypereosinophilia, and systemic vasculitis. Eosinophilic vasculitis may involve multiple organ systems, including the lungs, heart, skin, gastrointestinal tract and nervous system. Thus allergy and angiitis are the two hallmarks of CSS.