Abstracts tagged "Clinical research and immunoglobulin (IG)"

Abstract Number: 2041 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Baseline Clinical and Laboratory Features of IgG4-Related Disease: Retrospective Japanese Multicenter Study of 333 Cases
Kazunori Yamada¹, Motohisa Yamamoto², Takako Saeki³, Ichiro Mizushima⁴, Shoko Matsui⁵, Hiroki Takahashi⁶, Mitsuhiro Kawano⁷ and Shigeyuki Kawa⁸, ¹Division of Rheumatology,, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, ²First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital, Nagaoka, Japan, ⁴Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, ⁵Health Administration Center, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, ⁶epartment of Gastroenterology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan, ⁸Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Management, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a widely recognized systemic inflammatory disorder. However, owing to its extremely diverse clinical picture, each clinician encounters a clinically distinct…