A clinical case of recurrent polychondritis in a middle-aged woman

A case of recurrent polychondritis with damage to cartilage tissue (perichondritis) of the auricles, the back of the nose, and episcleritis in a 38-year-old woman is presented. The case is notable for the presence of characteristic clinical symptoms of a rare pathology, a long undulating course of the disease with periods of exacerbation and remission, as well as multiple changes in treatment regimens and the occurrence of an iatrogenic complication of drug therapy - Itsenko-Cushing syndrome.