Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare dis-ease of unknown etiology manifesting as an
episodic, yet generally progressive, inflamma-tion of cartilagenous structures throughout the
body, plus recurrent inflammation of special sense organs including the eye and ear. The
first recognizable reported case is that by Jaksch-Wartenhorst in 1923 (49). Little attention
was subsequently given to the entity until 1960 when Pearson et al (81) reported four
patients, collected six others from the literature, and suggested the name, relapsing …