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To distinguish IgG4-related disease from seronegative granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Source :
- Rheumatology, 56(12), 2245-2247. Oxford University Press
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- _SIR,_ IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibro-inflammatory disease that can affect almost every organ. Indeed, previous unexplained conditions have now been reclassified as primarily IgG4-RD and may imitate many inflammatory, infectious and malignant disorders often leading to a delay in diagnosis or incorrect diagnosis. Nasal manifestation of IgG4-RD, mostly of the paranasal sinuses, has previously been described in case reports, but it can also manifest as a primary or secondary nasal disease such as chronic sinusitis and paranasal sinusitis with dacryoadenitis. Since IgG4-RD localized in the nasal or orbital region remarkably resembles limited granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), IgG4-RD could be an alternative diagnosis in ANCA negative limited GPA. After revising the diagnosis to IgG4-RD in patient 1, we re-evaluated two other ANCA negative patients from a funded database with similar clinical features and could alter the diagnosis into IgG4-RD. The histomorphological features matching IgG4-RD and absence of evident features of GPA were the reasons for immunohistochemical analysis in these cases leading to the diagnosis of IgG4-RD. [...]
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
integumentary system
business.industry
fungi
Dacryoadenitis
Chronic sinusitis
Disease
medicine.disease
Dermatology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Paranasal sinuses
medicine.anatomical_structure
Rheumatology
parasitic diseases
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
medicine
Paranasal sinusitis
Pharmacology (medical)
In patient
IgG4-related disease
030212 general & internal medicine
skin and connective tissue diseases
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14620324
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Rheumatology, 56(12), 2245-2247. Oxford University Press
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be72c9b1d20cf8a9056ae72f4e7d3d98