Abstracts tagged "IgG4 Related Disease and complement"

Abstract Number: 1157 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Hypocomplementemia Is Closely Related to IgG Subclasses Other Than IgG4 in IgG4-Related Disease
Ichiro Mizushima¹, Kazunori Yamada², Motohisa Yamamoto³, Takako Saeki⁴, Shoko Matsui⁵, Satoshi Hara⁶, Hiroki Takahashi⁷, Hideki Nomura⁸, Shigeyuki Kawa⁹ and Mitsuhiro Kawano⁶, ¹Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, ²Department of Advanced Research in Community Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa, Japan, ³First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital, Nagaoka, Japan, ⁵Health Administration Center, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, ⁷Department of Gastroenterology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, ⁸Department of General Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan, ⁹Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Management, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
Background/Purpose: Hypocomplementemia frequently occurs in IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), especially IgG4-related kidney disease (IgG4-RKD). This study aimed to investigate the clinical features of IgG4-RD patients (pts)…