Aseptic Meningitis with Relapsing Polychondritis Mimicking Bacterial Meningitis

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis mimicking bacterial meningitis.

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare multisystem autoimmune disease. Though meningitis in RP is not common, some cases with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis of the lymphocyte cells have been reported. Of the 18 previously reported cases, two cases demonstrated pleocytosis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the CSF. In addition, cases with a decreased glucose level in the CSF were ...

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis

Relapsing polychondritis-associated meningitis and encephalitis: response to infliximab.

We are grateful to the many patients who contributed samples to these studies and to the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (UK) for additional financial support and help in patient recruitment. D.H. is funded by Arthritis Research UK (Grant 19356). B.P.W. and J.J.P. are supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre and the N...

Benign Lymphocytic Meningitis: (Acute Aseptic Meningitis)

Relapsing polychondritis mimicking rheumatoid arthritis.

A woman with relapsing polychondritis presented with progressive and deforming polyarthritis (but always negative for rheumatoid factor) 14 years before the appearance of typical clinical and histological changes of nasal and auricular cartilage destruction.