TY - JOUR T1 - Relapsing Polychondritis-associated Refractory Airway Stenosis JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 2488 LP - 2489 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.110665 VL - 38 IS - 11 AU - CHIEN-CHIH LAI AU - YU-SHENG CHANG AU - KAI-HUNG HSIAO AU - DE-FENG HUANG AU - WEI-SHENG CHEN Y1 - 2011/11/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/38/11/2488.abstract N2 - Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare and debilitating rheumatic disease featuring recurrent and at times disseminated inflammation of cartilaginous structures, including auricles, eyes, peripheral joints, and airway1. Symptomatic airway compromise in RP is considered a common but severe cause of morbidity and mortality, which necessitates aggressive medical and bronchoscopic intervention2. We describe a refractory airway stenosis in a young patient with RP.A 24-year-old man attended our clinic because of progressive pain and swelling in his left ear that had progressed to the right side with tenderness in his right eye for 1 year. He had been diagnosed with auricle chondritis with scleritis … ER -