Abstracts tagged "polychondritis and treatment"

Abstract Number: 1332 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Severe Complications and Immunosuppressive Treatments in 33 Patients with Relapsing Polychondritis
Toshiki Nakajima¹, Hajime Yoshifuji¹, Chikashi Terao², Kosaku Murakami¹, Nobuo Kuramoto¹, Ran Nakashima¹, Yoshitaka Imura³, Masao Tanaka¹, Koichiro Ohmura¹ and Tsuneyo Mimori¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ²Genomic Center, Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ³Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Background/Purpose: Since relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease as the prevalence rate is 0.0004% in Japan, its severe complications, prognosis and immunosuppressive therapies have…