hormones?

[Guest guest]

I remember us talking about hormones possibly being a shared

denominator of many of us. The following excerpt is from Relapsing

Polychondritis on emedicine,

Authored by Karin I Harp, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Internal

Medicine, Providence St Medical Center of Portland

Coauthored by J Raugi, MD, PhD, Chief, Veterans

Administration Medical Center of Seattle; Program Director, Associate

Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Dermatology,

University of Washington at Seattle

" Two intriguing case reports suggest that hormonal influences may be

of importance in RP. A man developed RP after receiving an injection

of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone, and a woman with arthritis

mutilans had a sudden exacerbation of her condition and new onset of

atrophy of the auricular cartilage, nasal septum, weight loss, and

deafness after receiving an injection of chorionic gonadotropin. "

Just an interesting note.

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