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Doctor & Patient: A Study in Relapsing Polychondritis

  |  Issue: December 2023  |  

Baseline tests for patients with RP should include audiometry, dynamic computed tomography (CT) of the chest and echocardiogram. Additional testing, such as laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy, may be indicated based on symptoms in specific patients.

Jason Liebowitz, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

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