The survival of people having relapsing polychondritis has improved enormously the last years. A study in 1998 showed a 10 year survival rate of 98%. (Source: http://www.relapsingpolychondritis.org/relapsing-polychondritis/)

As relapsing polychondritis advances, it causes more dangerous symptoms such as deterioration of the cartilage that holds the windpipe open.

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Symptoms of relapsing polychondritis can include:

Inflamed cartilage.

Redness, swelling, and pain.

Tissue damage causing deformity and poor functioning.

Shortness of breath.

Wheezing.

Complications in the rib cage, large and small joints, eyes, heart, lungs, blood vessels, and even kidneys.

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Relapsing polychondritis is a condition characterized by inflammation and deterioration of cartilage. The disease usually causes pain and deformity if unrecognized and untreated, and can be life-threatening when the respiratory tract, heart valves or blood vessels are affected.

a disease characterized by autoimmune-like episodic or progressive inflammation of cartilage and other connective tissue,