Relapsing polychondritis (also known as `Atrophic polychondritis,` and `Systemic chondromalacia`) is a multi-systemic condition characterized by inflammation and deterioration of cartilage. The often painful disease can cause deformity and be life-threatening when respiratory tract, heart valves or blood vessels are affected. The disease is no...
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(from the article `connective tissue disease`) Relapsing polychondritis is a rare inflammatory disease that primarily affects cartilage. It begins usually in the fourth or fifth decade and is ... ...of the affected cartilage. Polychondritis begins in middle age and most often affects the external ear, nose, and joints. Involvement of th...
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A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin. ... Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis,...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a degenerative and inflammatory disease of cartilage producing arthritis, collapse of the pinna, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree; of autosomal genetic transmission. Synonyms...
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