Late diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis without auricular chondritis, initiating with tracheal chondritis: a case report

Mónica Fernandes-Pineda; Raúl Vallejo-Serna; Luis Medina-Quintero

doi:10.5114/amsa.2023.126517

ISSN: 2657-7941

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Case report

Late diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis without auricular chondritis, initiating with tracheal chondritis: a case report

Mónica Fernandes-Pineda

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,

Raúl Vallejo-Serna

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,

Luis Fernando Medina-Quintero

¹

Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Arch Med Sci Aging 2023; 6: e9–e12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/amsa.2023.126517

Online publish date: 2023/04/13

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Introduction
Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare autoimmune disease of unknown aetiology that is characterized by recurrent inflammation of cartilaginous structures as well as other tissues.

Case report
We report the case of a 56-year-old male with recurrent airway infections for 5 years, with nasal and tracheal chondritis, in whom a late diagnosis of RP without auricular chondritis was made.

Conclusions
The clinical manifestations of RP are wide, and knowledge of these symptoms can decrease diagnosis delays and time to start treatment, thus avoiding tracheal involvement-associated morbidity.

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Late diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis without auricular chondritis, initiating with tracheal chondritis: a case report

Mónica Fernandes-Pineda 1 , Raúl Vallejo-Serna 1 , Luis Fernando Medina-Quintero 1

relapsing polychondritis, autoimmune diseases, rare diseases

Mónica Fernandes-Pineda

¹

,

Raúl Vallejo-Serna

¹

,

Luis Fernando Medina-Quintero

¹