Clinical characteristics of autoimmune pancreatitis with IgG4 related kidney disease.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients who had AIP with IgG4-RKD were more likely to have extrapancreatic lesions other than those in the kidney, and their serum creatinine and urinary β2-microglobulin concentrations were significantly higher than in those without IgG4-RKD.
PMID: 30826634 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Advances in Medical Sciences - February 26, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Kuruma S, Kamisawa T, Kikuyama M, Chiba K, Shimizuguchi R, Koizumi S, Tabata T Tags: Adv Med Sci Source Type: research