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IgG4-related Pleuritis with Chylothorax
- Source :
- Internal Medicine. 53:1545-1548
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 2014.
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Abstract
- Presently, 6 cases of IgG4-related pleuritis have been reported. We encountered a patient who developed chylothorax due to IgG4-related disease. To our knowledge, such patients have not been reported. This patient developed right-sided chylothorax and left-sided non-chylothorax lymphocyte-predominant pleuritis. Elevated serum and pleural IgG4 concentrations and histopathological analysis of pleural biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of IgG4-related pleuritis. Left-sided pleuritis improved with corticosteroid therapy, but right-sided chylothorax persists. IgG4-related disease can be one cause of chylothorax.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Biopsy
Chylothorax
Diagnosis, Differential
Elevated serum
parasitic diseases
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
skin and connective tissue diseases
Pleurisy
Aged
integumentary system
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
fungi
Histopathological analysis
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic
Surgery
Corticosteroid therapy
Bronchiolitis
Immunoglobulin G
Radiography, Thoracic
IgG4-related disease
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Pleural biopsy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235 and 09182918
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c133657ff8af00a899040e2c08402e98
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.53.1642