In response to the latest knowledge and the amendment of the Japanese diagnostic criteria
for autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) in 2018, the Japanese consensus guidelines for …

IgG4-RSD is an underrecognized condition about which knowledge is now growing rapidly.
Yet there remain many unknowns with regard to its cause, pathogenesis, various clinical …

Abstract Objective Patients with IgG4‐related systemic disease (IgG4‐RSD) frequently show
an incomplete response to treatment with glucocorticoids and traditional disease‐modifying …

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

Abstract Immunoglobin G (IgG) 4‐related sclerosing pancreatitis and cholangitis
(autoimmune pancreato‐cholangitis [AIPC]) are recently recognized disease entities …

Sclerosing cholangitis (SC) is a heterogeneous disease entity. Different etiologies such as
choledocholithiasis, biliary tumor, or pericholangitis can manifest as SC. Hepatic …

Autoimmune pancreatitis is a form of chronic pancreatitis characterized by an autoimmune
inflammatory process that may involve the biliary ducts, bowel, regional lymph nodes, and …

Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a periaortic sclerotic disease that encases
adjacent retroperitoneal structures, particularly the ureters. A subset of idiopathic RPF cases …

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a peculiar type of pancreatitis of presumed autoimmune
etiology. Many new clinical aspects of AIP have been clarified during the past 10 years, and …

Background Autoimmune pancreatitis is a unique form of chronic pancreatitis characterized
by high serum IgG4 concentrations and abundant IgG4-bearing plasma cell infiltration in the …