The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chondritis

inflammation of cartilage and perichondrium. In cartilage, which lacks blood vessels and nerves, necrosis develops more commonly than inflammation. Chondritis occurs during infectious diseases whose causative agents produce chondrolytic enzymes, such as typhus, as well as after injuries. The most common form of chondritis is costal chondritis (Tietze’s syndrome), characterized by pain, swelling, and the eventual formation of fistulas. Such respiratory disturbances as edema of the glottis may occur in chondritis of the larynx. In arthritis, the cartilage of the joints is affected. The treatment of chondritis is conservative; surgery is performed if necrosis or fistulas develop.

References in periodicals archive

Necrotizing Pseudomonas chondritis after piercing of the upper ear.

Erythematous swollen ear: The timing of the reaction in this case led us to the proper diagnosis

The main goal or aim of treatment of acute ear burns is to prevent suppurative chondritis. "Chondritis of ear is better prevented than treated" - is a famous saying.

Role of gentamicin in post-burns perichondritis

Following initiation of prednisone, there was resolution of the clinical manifestation of RP (auricular and nasal hyperemia and chondritis, as well as uveitis) along with improvement in the inflammatory markers.

Relapsing Polychondritis following Treatment with Secukinumab for Ankylosing Spondylitis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

The most characteristic feature of RPC is painful auricular chondritis of the cartilaginous portion (upper two-thirds) of the pinna with sparing of the lobule [6].

Leprosy with Atypical Skin Lesions Masquerading as Relapsing Polychondritis

Nasal chondritis is present at the time of diagnosis in 24% of patients and is seen at some stage of the disease in 53% of patients [7].

Early stage relapsing polychondritis diagnosed by nasal septum biopsy

Larangeal chondritis | This condition is an acute obstructive disease of the upper respiratory tract, caused by a chronic pus producing lesion in the larynx.

Important to be aware of these diseases; FARMING ROBERT GIBSON robert.gibson@ncjmedia.co.uk

(Eu|Sm) N are given for the normalized values of these lanthanides for coaly chondritis - C1 [7].

The dynamics of changes in the distribution of europium and [DELTA] [sup.13]c during the catagenesis of sapropelites in the Bazhenov Suite of Western Siberia

aureus 2 Enteroccoccus faecalis 2 MR Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 Pneumonia 4(3) Streptococcus pneumoniae 1 Negative cultures 3 Corneal Abscess 3 (2) MR-Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3 Chondritis 2 (1.5) MR-Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2 Toxic Shock 1 (1) Streptococcus pyogenes 1 Endocarditis 1 (1) MR -Acinetobacter spp.

Risk factors for mortality in burn children

A 29-year-old African-American female initially presented during a pregnancy with scleritis, nasal and aural chondritis, inflammatory arthritis, and axonal neuropathy.

Radiological evolution of relapsing polychondritis

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a disease which progresses with inflammatory attacks on articular and non-articular cartilaginous tissue and is most commonly encountered as auricular chondritis. in auricular chondritis, that the earlobe is not affected and existence of one or two sided fulminant rubescence, sensitivity and oedema on external ear cartilaginous tissue are salient (3).

Erythema annulare centrifugum and relapsing polychondritis associated with acute myeloid leukemia: a case report / Erythema Annulare Centrifugum ve Tekrarlayan Polikondritle Birliktelik Gosteren Akut Miyeloid Losemi: Bir Olgu Sunumu

(10) reported that for 16 ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients who received intraarticular etanercept, SI joint region of interest values improved after eight weeks, but the frequency of synovitis, enthesitis, chondritis, subchondral bony plate destruction, and bone marrow inflammation decreased.

Sacroiliac joint injections in patients with sacroiliitis: which is the right way?