Diagnostic Criteria for Relapsing Polychondritis

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	Diagnostic Criteria for Relapsing Polychondritis Three or more clinical signs must be present: Recurrent chondritis both auricles Non-erosive inflammatory polyarthritis Nasal chondritis Ocular inflammation Respiratory tract chondritis Cochlear and, or, vestibular dysfunction OR 1 or more signs with histologic confirmation OR Chondritis in 2 or more separate sites AND response to steroids or immunosuppression Differential diagnosis for these individual symptoms and signs includes most of the autoimmune disorders and other infectious and non-infectious granulomatous disorders including Wegener's granulomatosis, polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Takayasu's arteritis, giant cell arteritis (GCA), rheumatoid arthritis, Reiter's syndrome, rheumatic fever, polymorphic reticulosis, syphilis, tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, leprosy, sarcoidosis, and malignancy. Related Criteria Revised ARA Criteria for the Classification of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Classification Criteria for the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Criteria for the Classification of Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) ACR Criteria for the Classification of Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) ACR Criteria for the Classification of Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) ACR Criteria for the Classification of Giant-Cell Arteritis ACR Criteria for the Classification of Hypersensitivity Vasculitis Revised International Classification Criteria for Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) 1990 Criteria of American College of Rheumatology for the Classification of Takayasu Arteritis Classification Criteria for Osteoarthritis Criteria for the Classification of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) Diagnostic Criteria for Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) Diagnostic Criteria for Kawasaki Disease Names and definitions of vasculitis adopted by the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Diagnostic Criteria for Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) Criteria for the Classification of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) More... References: Gergely P Jr, Poor G. Relapsing polychondritis. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2004 Oct;18(5):723-38. [Medline] Sponsored Links			Arthritis and Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology (Two Volume Set), by W. Koopman 15th edition (September 1, 2004) Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient Orthopedic Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapy, by S. Paget 4th edition (February 15, 2000) Treatment of the Rheumatic Diseases: Companion to Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology, by M. Weisman 2nd edition (January 15, 2001)
	Created: May 26, 2005 Last Modified: 01/22/2010