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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2024

Relapsing polychondritis: clinical updates and new differential diagnoses.

Philippe Mertz, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Marcela A Ferrada, Guillaume Moulis, Arsène Mekinian, Peter C Grayson, Laurent Arnaud

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Calcified ears due to relapsing polychondritis.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Philippe MertzDepartment of Rheumatology, National Reference Center for Rare Autoimmune Diseases (RESO), INSERM UMR-S 1109, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Nathalie Costedoat-ChalumeauNational Referral Centre for Rare Autoimmune and Systemic Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP Centre, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Marcela A FerradaNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Guillaume MoulisDepartment of Internal Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France.
Arsène MekinianService de Médecine Interne, DHUi2B, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France.
Peter C GraysonNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Laurent ArnaudDepartment of Rheumatology, National Reference Center for Rare Autoimmune Diseases (RESO), INSERM UMR-S 1109, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Laurent.arnaud@chru-strasbourg.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8077-8394

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent inflammation of cartilaginous structures, mainly of the ears, nose and respiratory tract, with a broad spectrum of accompanying systemic features. Despite its rarity, prompt recognition and accurate diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis is crucial for appropriate management and optimal outcomes. Our understanding of relapsing polychondritis has changed markedly in the past couple of years with the identification of three distinct patient clusters that have different clinical manifestations and prognostic outcomes. With the progress of pangenomic sequencing and the discovery of new somatic and monogenic autoinflammatory diseases, new differential diagnoses have emerged, notably the vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic (VEXAS) syndrome, autoinflammatory diseases and immune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse events. In this Review, we present a detailed update of the newly identified clusters and highlight red flags that should raise suspicion of these alternative diagnoses. The identification of these different clusters and mimickers has a direct impact on the management, follow-up and prognosis of patients with relapsing polychondritis and autoinflammatory syndromes.

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Polychondritis, RelapsingDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansPrognosis

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