Comparison of clinical features and outcomes of proliferative, fibrotic, and mixed subtypes of IgG4-related disease: A retrospective cohort study

• Published in: Chinese medical journal Vol. 137; no. 3; pp. 303 - 311
• Main Authors: Peng, Linyi, Zhang, Xinlu, Zhou, Jiaxin, Li, Jieqiong, Liu, Zheng, Lu, Hui, Peng, Yu, Fei, Yunyun, Zhao, Yan, Zeng, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Wen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 05.02.2024; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies; Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, Beijing 100730, China%Institute of Clinical Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China; Wolters Kluwer
• Subjects: Bile ducts; Classification; Clinical outcomes; Disease; Exocrine glands; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - drug therapy; Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease - pathology; Immunoglobulins; Laboratories; Lungs; Lymphatic system; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical prognosis; Original; Pancreas; Patients; Prospective Studies; Prostate; Recurrence; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Statistical analysis; Thyroid gland; Tomography; Treatment Outcome; Fibrotic subtype; Treatment outcome; Clinical features; IgG4-related disease; Proliferative subtype

Abstract Background: Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a recently recognized immune-mediated disorder that can affect almost any organ in the human body. IgG4-RD can be categorized into proliferative and fibrotic subtypes based on patients' clinicopathological characteristics. This...