Abstracts tagged "IgG4 Related Disease and laboratory tests"

Abstract Number: 1784 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Serum IgG4 Test Characteristics: Immunonephelometry Versus Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Mollie Carruthers¹, Andre Mattman², Veronika Boyeva³, Liliana Cartagena⁴, Grace van der Gugten⁵, Michael Seidman² and Luke Chen⁶, ¹Rheumatology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁴Mary Pack Arthritis Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Department of Hematology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Background/Purpose: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibroinflammatory condition that may involve essentially any organ. The disease spectrum is also often associated with elevated serum IgG4,…