Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease that causes inflammation of your cartilage and other tissues in your body. If you have painful joints and notice changes in your ears or nose ...

Both patients have several manifestations of a connective-tissue disease and are included since they may offer some evidence for a connecting link between relapsing polychondritis and certain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) and immunoglobulin G4–related disease (IgG4-RD) are rare multi-organ immune-mediated diseases. Both can present with nonspecific symptoms of fatigue, weight loss, ...

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare condition characterized by autoreactive T cells; humoral reactivity to collagen may also play a role. Regarding therapy, the low prevalence of the disease ...

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare inflammatory disease that may affect cartilage throughout the body, but the diagnosis may be challenging in the absence of typical auricular or nasal involvement ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have been diagnosed with polychondritis, which causes a great deal of pain and discomfort. It is in my ribs now, but I have had it in the nose and ears. I am taking prednisone.

I have a patient with recidivant polychondritis whose eye involvement is very unresponsive after 1 year of treatment with mycophenolate (beginning with 1 mg/kg and increasing to 20 mg/kg ...