A large multicenter prospective cohort study has expanded “the understanding of the range of manifestations of disease in patients with relapsing polychondritis [RP]” — particularly involving the ear, ...

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare disease that causes inflammation of your cartilage. It most commonly affects your ears, joints, and nose. Share on Pinterest Anatolijs Jascuks / EyeEm/Getty Images ...

Two other cases, each of which has shown inflammation and partial collapse of an external ear, are also briefly described. Both patients have several manifestations of a connective-tissue disease and ...

Early symptoms of relapsing polychondritis include sudden pain in cartilage, ear swelling, joint inflammation, and eye problems. Although polychondritis is not currently curable, treatment helps ...

We report on a case of fever of unknown origin in which 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron-emission tomography (PET) was instrumental in depicting cartilage inflammation, which eventually led to a ...

The main clinical challenge with this patient was to first determine whether we were dealing with two or three separate illnesses that seemingly occurred at the same time or a single illness with ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. C-reactive protein declined after the BMT and remained at or less than 0.1 mg/dL except for the episode of documented pneumonia in ...