title: Urticarial vasculitis revealing relapsing polychondritis.
abstract: We report a case of hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis heralding a relapsing polychondritis in a 63-year-old woman. The patient, who had suffered in the past from polymyalgia rheumatica, suddenly experienced a generalized urticarial eruption with a dramatic decrease in C4 complement fraction and the presence of anti-C1q antibodies. Two months later, an ear chondritis occurred and the patient rapidly responded to steroids and dapsone. To our knowledge, this association has never been reported.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne, CHU Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Serratrice
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Roux-Serratrice
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ené
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Granel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Disdier
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Weiller