A 38-year-old woman presents with new onset of multiple purpuric skin lesions. Two years ago she developed late-onset asthma and mild hypertension. Laboratoryexamination reveals an increase in the number of eosinophils in the peripheral blood (peripheral eosinophilia), and a biopsy from one of the purpuric skin lesions reveals leukocytoclastic vasculitis. No perivascular IgA deposits are found, and no antineutrophil cytoplasm autoantibodies are present. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? a. Churg-Strauss syndrome b. Henoch-Schönlein purpura c. Macroscopic polyarteritis nodosa d. Microscopic polyangiitis e. Wegener granulomatosis
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