2015 Persian Gulf Criteria for Early Diagnosis of Relapsing Polychondritis
[1]
Iraj Salehi-Abari, Rheumatology Research Center, Amir Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Relapsing polychondritis (RPC) is a systemic autoimmune disease with unknown etiology but genetic background, involving chondral structures and tissues consisting collagens. This disorder is presenting as auricular chondritis (bilateral or unilateral), nasal chondritis, main airway chondritis, oligo/polyarthritis, eye inflammation and cochlear/vestibular dysfunction along with many other organs involvement, including heart, kidney, skin, gastrointestinal tract and etc. Nowadays, McAdam’s criteria are used for the diagnosis of RPC. The author wants to show that it may have its own defects for early diagnosis of RPC and in some cases it doesn’t have accuracy for diagnosis. So the author decided to introduce 2015 Persian Gulf Criteria for early/accurate diagnosis of RPC.
Relapsing Polychondritis, McAdam’s Criteria, Persian Gulf Criteria
[1]
Kent PD, Michet CJ, Jr., Luthra HS. Relapsing polychondritis. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2004 Jan;16(1):56-61.
[2]
Coppola M, Yealy DM. Relapsing polychondritis: an unusual cause of painful auricular swelling. Ann Emerg Med. 1992 Jan;21(1):81-5
[3]
McAdam LP, O'Hanlan MA, Bluestone R, Pearson CM. Relapsing polychondritis: prospective study of 23 patients and a review of the literature. Medicine (Baltimore). 1976 May; 55(3): 193 - 215.
[4]
Salehi I, Khazaeli S, Khak M. Early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis: an introduction to the newly designed Iran Criteria for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatol Int. 2013; 33(1): 45-50
[5]
Salehi-Abari I, Khazaeli S, Khak M. Early diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis: an introduction to the newly designed Iran criteria for ankylosing spondylitis. Rheumatol Int. 2013; 33(5): 1303-8
[6]
Salehi-Abari I, Khazaeli S, Khak M, Motesaddi M, Hasibi M. Early diagnosis of Wegener's disease: an introduction to the newly designed Iran criteria for early diagnosis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Indian Journal of Rheumatology. 2013
[7]
Salehi-Abari I. 2015 ACR/SLICC Revised Criteria for Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Autoimmune Dis Ther Approaches Open Access. 2015;2:114
[8]
Salehi-Abari I, Khazaeli S, Niksirat A. Chondromalacia Patella and New Diagnostic Criteria. Open Science Journal of Clinical Medicine.2015;3(4):126-8
[9]
Tsunezuka Y, Sato H, Shimizu H. Tracheobronchial involvement in relapsing polychondritis. Respiration. 2000;67(3):320-2.
[10]
Ernst A, Rafeq S, Boiselle P, Sung A, Reddy C, Michaud G, et al. Relapsing polychondritis and airway involvement. Chest. 2009 Apr;135(4):1024-30.
[11]
Isaak BL, Liesegang TJ, Michet CJ, Jr. Ocular and systemic findings in relapsing polychondritis. Ophthalmology. 1986 May;93(5):681-9
[12]
Cody DT, Sones DA. Relapsing polychondritis: audiovestibular manifestations. Laryngoscope. 1971 Aug;81(8):1208-22
