PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Esdaile, J.
AU  - Hawkins, D.
AU  - Gold, P.
AU  - Freedman, S. O.
AU  - Duguid, W. P.
TI  - Vascular involvement in relapsing polychondritis
DP  - 1977 May 07
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1019--1022
VI  - 116
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/116/9/1019.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/116/9/1019.full
SO  - CMAJ1977 May 07; 116
AB  - Review of four cases of relapsing polychondritis (RP) seen at one hospital in the 12-year period 1963 to 1974 revealed that one patient had aortic insufficiency with large artery involvement, two others had involvement of medium and large arteries and the fourth may have had mucocutaneous vasculitis. Valvular disease has occurred in 9% of all cases of RP reported in the literature and, if vasculitis beyong the aortic root is included, 25% of cases of RP manifested inflammatory vascular disease. The frequency of pseudotumour of the orbit and cochlear-labyrinthine dysfunction is also high and may be a manifestation of vasculitis.