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IgG4-related disease

Terumi Kamisawa, +3 more
- 11 Apr 2015 - 
- Vol. 385, Iss: 9976, pp 1460-1471
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Identification of specific antigens and T-cell clones that drive the disease will be the first steps to elucidate the pathogenesis of IgG4-related disease.
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IgG4-Related Disease: Clinical and Laboratory Features in One Hundred Twenty-Five Patients.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report detailed clinical and laboratory findings in a larger group of patients with IgG4-related disease whose diagnosis was established by strict clinicopathologic correlation.
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IgG4-Related Disease: Dataset of 235 Consecutive Patients

TL;DR: A reliable dataset could improve the characterization of IgG4-RD, particularly its unique demography and the frequency of each organ manifestation, using a large cohort of patients.
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Chronic pancreatitis caused by an autoimmune abnormality : proposal of the concept of autoimmune pancreatitis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a case of chronic pancreatitis in which an autoimmune mechanism is involved in the etiology and summarized the cases of pancreatitis suspected of being caused by an auto-antibody-positive mechanism in the Japanese and English literature.
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Specificity and affinity of human Fcγ receptors and their polymorphic variants for human IgG subclasses

TL;DR: The results document how hFcgammaR specificity and affinity may account for the biological activities of antibodies and highlight the role of specific hF cgammaRs in the therapeutic and pathogenic effects of antibodies in disease.
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A new clinicopathological entity of IgG4-related autoimmune disease

TL;DR: It is suggested that AIP is not simply pancreatitis but that it is a pancreatic lesion involved in IgG4-related systemic disease with extensive organ involvement, and a new clinicopathological entity is proposed.
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