Rheumatology

IgG4-related disease

A fibroinflammatory disease of older men that forms tumour-like swellings in the pancreas, bile ducts, salivary and lacrimal glands, retroperitoneum and aorta. Why serum IgG4 neither proves nor excludes it, the biopsy features, the 2019 ACR/EULAR criteria, steroid response, and B-cell depletion (rituximab, inebilizumab in MITIGATE) for relapse.

Tier 2Condition

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