전신성 홍반성 루푸스 환자에서 발생한 재발성 다발성 연골염

Abstract

Relapsing polychondritis is an episodic and often progressive inflammatory disorder of unknown cause affecting predominantly the cartilage of ears, nose and tracheobronchial tree as well as other proteoglycan-rich structures such as eye, heart, blood vessels and inner ear. Relapsing polychondritis can present with many other rheumatic disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus eryhematosus, Sjogren's syndrome, Behcet's disease and vasculitis. Recently we have experienced a case of relapsing polychondritis patient who presented with systemic lupus erythematosus. Relapsing polychondritis occuring in a systemic lupus erythematosus patients have never been reported in the Korean literature.