The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Classification Criteria for IgG4‐Related Disease

• Published in: Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 7 - 19
• Main Authors: Wallace, Zachary S., Naden, Ray P., Chari, Suresh, Choi, Hyon, Della‐Torre, Emanuel, Dicaire, Jean‐Francois, Hart, Phil A., Inoue, Dai, Kawano, Mitsuhiro, Khosroshahi, Arezou, Kubota, Kensuke, Lanzillotta, Marco, Okazaki, Kazuichi, Perugino, Cory A., Sharma, Amita, Saeki, Takako, Sekiguchi, Hiroshi, Schleinitz, Nicolas, Stone, James R., Takahashi, Naoki, Umehara, Hisanori, Webster, George, Zen, Yoh, Stone, John H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Classification; Confidence intervals; Consensus; Criteria; Decision analysis; Diagnosis, Differential; Domains; Epidemiology; Europe; Female; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - classification; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - diagnosis; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - immunology; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - pathology; Male; Middle Aged; Organs; Physicians; Radiology; Reproducibility of Results; Rheumatism; Rheumatology; Sensitivity; Societies, Medical; United States; United States; Europe

Objective IgG4‐related disease (IgG4‐RD) can cause fibroinflammatory lesions in nearly any organ. Correlation among clinical, serologic, radiologic, and pathologic data is required for diagnosis. This work was undertaken to develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for IgG...