Recent advances support the concept of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) as a unique
systemic disease, because it shows occasional extrapancreatic lesions such as sclerosing …

Background & Aims: Immunoglobulin (Ig) G4-associated cholangitis (IAC) is the biliary
manifestation of a steroid-responsive multisystem fibroinflammatory disorder in which …

Inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a member of a family of disorders referred
to as “chronic periaortitis” together with retroperitoneal fibrosis. Retroperitoneal fibrosis is …

Immunoglobulin G4-associated cholangitis was found to be characterized by overproduction
of T helper 2 cells, and regulatory cytokines (interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor-β) …

Objectives: The ideal diagnostic criteria of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) are still
challenging. Therefore, we investigated the clinical features of AIP in Korea and assessed …

Autoimmune pancreatitis is the pancreatic manifestation of a systemic disorder that affects
various organs, including the bile duct, retroperitoneum, kidney, and parotid and lacrimal …

PURPOSE: To evaluate imaging findings of abdominal extrapancreatic lesions associated
with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and changes after steroid therapy. METHODS AND …

Background Although there are two peaks in the age distribution of primary sclerosing
cholangitis (PSC) in Japan, the clinical differences between the patients with an older or …

Autoimmune pancreatitis is a form of chronic pancreatitis of presumed autoimmune
aetiology. The disease is characterised with clinical, serological, histomorphological and …

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is the pancreatic manifestation of a systemic
fibroinflammatory disease (IgG4-related systemic disease) in which affected organs …