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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2023

IgG4-related diseases involving pleura: a case report and literature review.

Anli Zuo, Xinyi Liu, Zihan Guo, Yunxiu Jiang, Degan Lu

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anli ZuoDepartment of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.
Xinyi LiuDepartment of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.
Zihan GuoDepartment of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.
Yunxiu JiangDepartment of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.
Degan LuDepartment of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.
Shandong Provincial QianFoShan Hospital · CNShandong First Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic fibro-inflammatory disease with the potential to involve virtually all organs, including the pancreas, kidneys, lungs, and pleura, amongst others. IgG4-RD pleural involvement may cause diverse complications such as pleural effusion, pleural thickening, pleural nodules, and additional lesions, which can be presented in many clinical diseases. However, isolated cases of pleurisy are still rare in IgG4-RD. We report a 72-year-old patient who was admitted to our hospital with cough, expectoration, and fatigue. He had a right-sided pleural effusion, and the tissue evaluation of the pleural biopsy by medical thoracoscopy met the diagnostic criteria of IgG4-RD. His serum IgG4 levels were elevated and he was finally diagnosed with IgG4-RD pleural involvement. He was subsequently started on prednisone 40 mg daily and his pleural effusion was almost disappeared 2 weeks later. This paper reported a case of IgG4-RD who had exclusive involvement of the pleura and highlighted the significance of considering IgG4-RD as a potential diagnosis in patients with unexplained pleural effusion.

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case reportdiagnosisidiopathic pleural lesionsIgG4-related diseasepleural effusiontreatment

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