What are the complications of recurrent polychondritis?

Recurrent polychondritis complications include infectious diseases, connective tissue diseases, thyroid diseases, etc.

1, infectious diseases

Recurrent polychondritis common complications are vasculitis, including systemic vasculitis involving multiple organs, skin leukocyte-fragmenting vasculitis, etc., when involved in the aorta, can cause arterial dilation or the formation of aneurysms.

2, connective tissue diseases

Recurrent polychondritis is also easy to combine systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome and other diseases.

3, thyroid disease

Some patients may also appear non-toxic goiter, exophthalmos goiter, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and other diseases.