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The dual role of endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune pancreatitis with gastric variceal bleeding: A case report and literature review [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare type of chronic pancreatitis associated with immune disorders. Co-occurrence of regional portal hypertension and gastric variceal bleeding associated with autoimmune pancreatitis is exceedingly rare.
Wenfeng Xi, Wen Shi, Yunlu Feng, Xinyuan Cao, Xiaoyan Chang, Aiming Yang   +5 more
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IgG4-related Disease Manifesting as Autoimmune Pancreatitis, Sialadenitis, and Cholangitis: Case Report [PDF]

Acta Medica Lituanica
IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a rare autoimmune disease which can affect almost any organ. We present a case of IgG4-RD, which manifested as chronic autoimmune pancreatitis with pancreatic insufficiency, severe malnutrition, autoimmune sialadenitis,
Augustina Tumelytė, Vytautas Rimkus, Paulina Tekoriutė, Limas Kupčinskas   +3 more
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Autoimmune pancreatitis with IgG-4 cholangiopathy in a pregnant woman: A case report

Radiology Case Reports, 2023
Diagnosis and management of autoimmune pancreatitis during pregnancy. Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare and life-threatening condition with increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality.
Yara Ameerah, MD, Basel Musmar, MD, Ahmed Awadghanem, MD, Qusai Abdo, MD   +3 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene reduces markers of hepatic inflammation in NAFLD: A double‐blind, placebo‐controlled clinical trial

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
NRPT 1X reduces ALT and ceramide 14:0 in 65% of subjects as compared to only 28% in the placebo group. Abstract Background and Aims The prevalence of NAFLD is increasing globally and on a path to becoming the most frequent cause of chronic liver disease. Strategies for the prevention and treatment of NAFLD are urgently needed.
Ryan W. Dellinger, Holly E. Holmes, Tina Hu‐Seliger, Rodney W. Butt, Stephen A. Harrison, Dariush Mozaffarian, Oliver Chen, Leonard Guarente   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autoimmune pancreatitis type 1 and type 2: A report of two cases [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017
Introduction. Autoimmune pancreatitis is a disease associated with autoimmune mechanisms, clinically manifested mostly as obstructive icterus with or with no entire or partial enlargement of the pancreas, histological lymphoplas-mocytic infiltration ...
Brčerević Irina, Doder Radoje, Perišić Nenad, Petrović Stanko, Jović Jasna, Hristović Dejan, Đorđević Zoran, Tasić-Radić Olga   +7 more
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Is Surgery in Autoimmune Pancreatitis Always a Failure?

Medicina, 2023
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis of presumed autoimmune etiology. Due to significant overlap in clinical and imaging characteristics, misdiagnosis as a pancreatic malignancy is common.
Hana Zavrtanik, Aleš Tomažič
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Case report: Induction and maintenance of steroid-free remission with vedolizumab in a case of steroid-dependent autoimmune pancreatitis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Autoimmune pancreatitis responds well to corticosteroids in most instances. Additional immunosuppression or low-dose maintenance steroids may be necessary upon relapse.
Paul Griebel, Florian Tran, Florian Tran, Janina Luehring, Stefan Schreiber, Stefan Schreiber   +5 more
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A novel immunoglobulin-immunoglobulin interaction in autoimmunity. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
Well over six decades since its first description, the Rheumatoid Factor (RF)-autoantibodies recognizing Fc (constant) portion of IgG through their own Fab (antigen binding variable segments)-is believed to have come of age.
Shigeyuki Kawa, Kei Kitahara, Hideaki Hamano, Yayoi Ozaki, Norikazu Arakura, Kaname Yoshizawa, Takeji Umemura, Masao Ota, Sadaaki Mizoguchi, Yasunori Shimozuru, Seiamak Bahram   +10 more
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Successful treatment of pediatric IgG4 related systemic disease with mycophenolate mofetil: case report and a review of the pediatric autoimmune pancreatitis literature

Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, 2011
Autoimmune pancreatitis is frequently associated with elevated serum and tissue IgG4 levels in the adult population, but there are few reports of pediatric autoimmune pancreatitis, and even fewer reports of IgG4 related systemic disease in a pediatric ...
Cron Randy Q, Mannion Melissa
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