Hernández DPA, Salmon GSL, Rodríguez AY, González RM, Calzado VI

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

A 31-year-old female patient, with healthy medical history and a diabetic mother, attended the clinic for biatrial and nasal chondritis, arthralgia and progressive dyspnea of about three weeks’ evolution. Due to its typically clinical picture, as well as to the results of complementary studies, recurrent polychondritis (PR) is diagnosed, steroids and conventional treatment are prescribed for chronic respiratory failure (CRF). Despite treatment, the patient had torpid evolution.