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Relapsing Polychondritis [PDF]
Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine, 2014 Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare systemic disease characterized by recurrent, widespread chondritis of the auricular, nasal, and tracheal cartilages. Additional clinical features include audiovestibular dysfunction, ocular inflammation, vasculitis,
Beata Sosada +2 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Relapsing polychondritis is an immune disorder of unknown etiology involving multiple systems that is characterized by persistent inflammation and destruction of cartilage, including the ears, nose, costal, joint, and airways.
Pengcheng Zhou +7 more
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Respiratory-predominant relapsing polychondritis: the role of PET scan in making this challenging diagnosis [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal MedicineRelapsing polychondritis is a rare, immune-mediated, multisystemic disease characterized by recurrent inflammation of cartilaginous and proteoglycan-rich tissues. Its diagnosis may be challenging due to its rarity and wide clinical variability. It can be
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ERJ Open Research, 2021 Introduction Relapsing polychondritis is a rare multisystem vasculitis characterised by recurrent cartilage inflammation. Respiratory involvement, of which tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) is the commonest form, is difficult to treat and is linked to ...
Shirish Dubey +9 more
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São Paulo Medical JournalPURPOSE: This article describes a clinically-diagnosed case of relapsing polychondritis (RP), attended at the Hospital São Paulo, and presents a literature review of the subject.
Lincoln Sakiara Miyasaka +3 more
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Recurrent lymphocytic meningitis and progressive dementia: manifestations of relapsing polychondritis: a case report [PDF]
BMC NeurologyBackground Recurrent polychondritis is an immune-mediated systemic disease that affects cartilaginous and non-cartilaginous structures. Despite being rare, multiple neurological manifestations have been described, such as involvement of cranial nerves ...
Vanessa Ocampo-Piraquive +3 more
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Relapsing polychondritis: commentary
Reumatismo, 2002 Relapsing Polychondritis (RP) is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology characterized by episodic inflammation of cartilage and potentially progressive degeneration of cartilaginous tissue, such as auricular, nasal and laryngotracheobronchial ...
I. Herrera, A. Mannoni, R.D. Altman
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Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2016 Arulprakash Sarangapani +2 more
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Relapsing Polychondritis [PDF]
Respiration, 1998 In this article, we report on a 40-year-old man with relapsing polychondritis (RP) of the tracheobronchial tree without clinical manifestations of other systems including nasal septum and earlobe cartilage involvement. The illness was diagnosed histologically, and treatment with procaine penicillin was successful.
Yalcinkaya, I +3 more
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Evaluation of airway involvement and treatment in patients with relapsing polychondritis
Scientific Reports, 2023 Airway involvement in relapsing polychondritis (RP) can be debilitating and life threatening, often requiring interventional procedures. If standard therapies including systemic corticosteroid and immunosuppressive agents are ineffective, airway stenting
H. Handa +4 more
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