Relapsing Polychondritis
A Case of Relapsing Polychondritis Initiating with Unexplained Fever
... Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare autoimmune disease affecting the multiple organ system. Here, we describe a case of RP initially presenting with high fever. The patient was referred to our hospital ...
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A new animal model for relapsing polychondritis, induced by cartilage matrix protein (matrilin 1)
... Relapsing polychondritis (RP) differs from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in that primarily cartilage out- side diarthrodial joints is affected. The disease usually involves trachea, nose, and outer ears. To ...
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Stenosis of the Subglottic Trachea Revealing Relapsing Polychondritis of a Young Adult
... Relapsing polychondritis is a rare inflammatory disease involving essentially cartilaginous struc- ...of Relapsing polychondritis can be life threatening, it is curable with steroid ...
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Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
... Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare immune-related disease that primarily, but not exclusively, affects cartil- aginous structures, such as the ears, nose, and laryngo- tracheobronchial ...
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Relapsing polychondritis associated with bilateral stapes footplate fixation: a case report
... Case presentation: The case of a 39-years-old Caucasian woman with a three-year history of recurrent bilateral chondritis of the auricles, nasal chondritis, seronegative polyarthritis and dermatitis is reported. She had ...
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Impact of an Exercise Training Program in a Patient with Relapsing Polychondritis: A Case Report
... Background: Exercise training has demonstrating to be safe and promote benefits for several rheumatologic autoimmune diseases. However, no study has evaluated the safety and benefits of exercise in relapsing ...
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Is 18F FDG PET/CT useful for diagnosing relapsing polychondritis with airway involvement and monitoring response to steroid based therapy?
... Relapsing polychondritis (RP), first described by Jaksch- Wartenhorst in 1923 [1], is a rare autoimmune inflam- matory disease characterised by episodic inflammation of the cartilaginous tissue and ...
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Early Stage Relapsing Polychondritis Diagnosed by Nasal Septum Biopsy
... Relapsing polychondritis is a rare inflammation of cartilaginous tissues, the diagnosis of which is usually delayed by a mean period of ...cartilage. Relapsing polychondritis was confirmed by ...
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Cartilage specific autoimmunity in animal models and clinical aspects in patients – focus on relapsing polychondritis
... In animal models matrilin-1 plays a unique role in the induction of chondritis in the respiratory tract. Recently we presented a new animal model for RP that mimics symp- toms originating in the nose and respiratory ...
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Auricular chondritis in NOD DQ8 Aβo (Ag7–/–) transgenic mice resembles human relapsing polychondritis
... We have described in this study an experimental model of relapsing polychondritis, which shares clinical and histologic features with human relapsing polychondri- tis. Transgenic mice expressing DQ8 ...
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Relapsing polychondritis: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
... chondritis, relapsing” [MeSH Terms] OR (“polychondritis” [All Fields] AND “relapsing” [All Fields]) OR “relapsing polychondritis” [All Fields] OR (“relapsing” [All Fields] AND ...
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A Case of Relapsing Polychondritis Successfully Treated with Combination of a Glucocorticoid and Cyclosporine
... Relapsing polychondritis is a rare cartilaginous inflammatory disease affecting the external ear, nose, peripheral joints and tracheobronchial ...as relapsing polychondritis on the basis of ...
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Refractory relapsing polychondritis: challenges and solutions
... Relapsing polychondritis is a disorder evolving by flare remission. It is characterized by clinical polymorphism, requiring a team approach with different medical and surgical specialties. The onset of the ...
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Relapsing polychondritis with different types of ocular inflammations
... Abstract: We were presented with two cases of relapsing polychondritis (RP) associated with different types of ocular inflammation. The first case was a 35-year-old man who had bilateral hyperemic ...
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Immunopathologic Studies in Relapsing Polychondritis
... with relapsing polychondritis in an attempt to define a potential immunopathologic role for degradation constituents of cartilage in the causation and/or perpetuation of the inflammation ...
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Relapsing polychondritis: clinical presentations, disease activity and outcomes
... Relapsing Polychondritis (RP,Orpha 728) is usually a recurring, autoimmune, inflammatory disorder predom- inantly affecting cartilage and other proteoglycan rich structures, with clinically significant ear, ...
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Critical role of the major histocompatibility complex and IL 10 in matrilin 1 induced relapsing polychondritis in mice
... Autoimmune diseases that affect cartilage tissue are wide- spread in the population. The most common one is rheuma- toid arthritis (RA), in which joints are attacked by an erosive, relapsing inflammation. In a ...
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A nationwide study of the epidemiology of relapsing polychondritis
... RP is treated with several therapeutic methods according to different manifestations of the disease. Less severe symptoms like moderate auricular, nasal chondritis and arthralgia are usu- ally treated with nonsteroid ...
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Replasing Polychondritis and Geriatrics: Report of Two Cases
... of relapsing polychondritis [5-7, 11, 13, 15-17] Other structures that maybe affected include the eyes, cochlear or vestibular structures, cardiac valves, large vessels, and the kidneys, skin Neurologic ...
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Relapsing Fever Borreliae: A Global Review
... into breaks in the skin such as through scratching. Unlike the transmission of Lyme disease borreliae that require attachment of their tick vector for an excess of 48 hours, transmission of tick‐borne relapsing ...
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