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Treatment of diffuse tracheomalacia secondary to relapsing polychondritis with continuous positive airway pressure
M Adliff1, D Ngato, S Keshavjee
1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chest
|December 24, 1997
Abstract:
Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease characterized by recurrent inflammation and destruction of the cartilaginous structures. Tracheobronchial chondritis is a dreaded complication of RP. We wish to report a case of RP of the trachea and bronchi which was treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure.