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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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Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, 2009 Leprosy is unique in terms of the nature of the causative organism (Mycobacterium leprae), the chronicity of the disease, its prolonged treatment and the definitions of "cure" and "relapse." The principal mode of assessing the efficacy of therapeutic regimens in leprosy is the "relapse rate." There are wide variations in estimates of relapse rates ...
Kaimal, Sowmya, Thappa, Devinder Mohan
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Management of Relapsed and Relapsed Refractory Myeloma
Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 2007 Studies of bortezomib, thalidomide, and lenalidomide have shown promising clinical activity in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (MM). Bortezomib alone and in combination with other agents is associated with high response rates, consistently high rates of complete response, and a predictable and manageable profile of adverse events.
Kastritis, E. +3 more
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, 2012 Plasmodium vivax is a major cause of febrile illness in endemic areas of Asia, Central and South America, and the horn of Africa. P. vivax infections are characterized by relapses of malaria arising from persistent liver stages of the parasite (hypnozoites), which can be prevented currently only by 8-aminoquinoline anti-malarials. Tropical P.
White, N, Imwong, M
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Dermatology Online Journal, 2003 A 57-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of (1) recurrent swelling of the ears that spared his earlobes and (2) migratory arthralgias. A biopsy specimen of the ear showed a perichondrial infiltrate of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and a few neutrophils. There were acellular foci of underlying cartilage.
Clive M, Liu +3 more
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Relapsing Polychondritis [PDF]
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2002 Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease causing inflammation and destruction of cartilage and other connective tissues. Specific laboratory aberrations are lacking. Predominant clinical manifestations include auricular chondritis, polyarthritis, nasal chondritis, ocular inflammation, audiovestibular damage, and respiratory tract chondritis.
Bruce A, Staats +2 more
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European Journal of Rheumatology, 2019 Abstract Relapsing polychondritis (RPC) is a unique and rarely observed autoimmune condition regarded as recurrent extensive chondritis of the auricular, nasal, and tracheal cartilages. Moreover, heart, main arteries, skin, and eyes may be involved. Several forms of clinical manifestations may be seen, and the pathogenesis still remains anonymous.
Hakan, Emmungil, Sibel Zehra, Aydın
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Joint Bone Spine, 2014 Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease in which recurrent bouts of inflammation, in some cases followed by destruction, affect the cartilage of the ears, nose, larynx, and tracheobronchial tree. At presentation, however, arthritis is the most common manifestation and more than half the patients have no evidence of chondritis.
Puéchal, Xavier +5 more
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Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2016 Arulprakash Sarangapani +2 more
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, 2010 Abstract Louse-borne relapsing fever and tick-borne relapsing fever are characterized by repeated episodes of high fever separated by afebrile periods. They are caused by Borrelia spirochaetes distinct from those responsible for Lyme borrelioses.
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