IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review

A patient with a prior diagnosis of IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) presented four years later with severe prednisone resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Her case is reported and the scant literature of the very unusual possible association of IgG4-related AIP and ITP is reviewed. It...

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Autores principales: Sakiyama, Claire, Sullivan, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29188168
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1724
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description A patient with a prior diagnosis of IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) presented four years later with severe prednisone resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Her case is reported and the scant literature of the very unusual possible association of IgG4-related AIP and ITP is reviewed. It is suggested that investigation for IgG4-related disease be part of the work-up of ITP.
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spelling pubmed-57051672017-11-29 IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review Sakiyama, Claire Sullivan, Stephen Cureus Gastroenterology A patient with a prior diagnosis of IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) presented four years later with severe prednisone resistant immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Her case is reported and the scant literature of the very unusual possible association of IgG4-related AIP and ITP is reviewed. It is suggested that investigation for IgG4-related disease be part of the work-up of ITP. Cureus 2017-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5705167/ /pubmed/29188168 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1724 Text en Copyright © 2017, Sakiyama et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short IgG4-Related Pancreatitis and Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort igg4-related pancreatitis and immune thrombocytopenia: a case report and literature review
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29188168
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1724
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