TITLE:
Multisystem Inflammatory Disease with Respiratory Failure in a 7-Year-Old Boy
AUTHORS:
Gurpreet Phull, Prateek J. Shukla, Dinesh K. Pillai
KEYWORDS:
Polychondritis, Chronic Atrophic, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger Syndrome, Atrophic Polychondritis, Cartilaginous Arthritic Deafness Syndrome
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.7 No.12,
December
5,
2018
ABSTRACT: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare episodic and progressive inflammatory disease of presumed autoimmune etiology. The estimated incidence is 3.5 cases per million. Of these only 10% affect pediatric populations.