Clinical and Prognostic Significance of Serum IgG4 in Chronic Periaortitis. An Analysis of 113 Patients

Objective: Chronic periaortitis (CP) is a rare fibro-inflammatory disorder that incorporates idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis, inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms, and perianeurysmal retroperitoneal fibrosis. CP is included in the spectrum of IgG4-related disease. Since CP patients rarely und...

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Main Authors: Federica Maritati, Rossana Rocco, Eugenia Accorsi Buttini, Chiara Marvisi, Maria Nicastro, Maria L. Urban, Paride Fenaroli, Francesco Peyronel, Giuseppe D. Benigno, Alessandro A. Palumbo, Domenico Corradi, Giacomo Emmi, Nicolò Pipitone, Alessandra Palmisano, Augusto Vaglio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00693/full