Abstracts tagged "IgG4 Related Disease and cyclophosphamide"

Abstract Number: 245 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Efficacy of Cyclophosphamide Therapy in Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis in a Retrospective Monocentric Analysis
Bimba F. Hoyer¹, Caroline Kumpert², Marcus Makowski³, Birgit Rudolph⁴, U. Schneider⁵, Gerd R. Burmester⁶ and Falk Hiepe⁷, ¹Charité University Medicine, Department of Medicine/Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ), Berlin, Germany, ²department of Rheumatology and clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin,, Berlin, Germany, ³Department for Radiology, Charité Universityhospital, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Department for pathology, Charité Universityhospital, Berlin, Germany, ⁵Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Berlin, Germany, ⁶Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁷Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Ormond’s disease (idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis ,IRF) is a rare disease. Main clinical symptom is compression of the ureters leading to renal failure. A majority…