Refractory IgG4-related Pleural Disease with Chylothorax: A Case Report and Literature Review

We herein report a rare case of a 66-year-old man with refractory chylothorax. Although he had been treated with moderate doses of prednisolone (PSL) on suspicion of pleuritis with Sjögren syndrome, the pleural effusion expanded after the reduction of PSL. Further workup including histopathological...

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Autores principales: Sakata, Komei, Kikuchi, Jun, Emoto, Katsura, Kotaki, Tomomi, Ota, Yuichiro, Nishina, Naoshi, Hanaoka, Hironari, Otomo, Kotaro, Suzuki, Katsuya, Kaneko, Yuko, Takeuchi, Tsutomu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33518567
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.6313-20
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Sumario:We herein report a rare case of a 66-year-old man with refractory chylothorax. Although he had been treated with moderate doses of prednisolone (PSL) on suspicion of pleuritis with Sjögren syndrome, the pleural effusion expanded after the reduction of PSL. Further workup including histopathological examinations of pleura led to the diagnosis of IgG4-RD with bilateral chylothorax without any leakage from the thoracic duct. Combination therapy with high-dose PSL plus rituximab successfully decreased the pleural effusion. This is a very rare case of IgG4-related pleuritis with chylothorax and the first report of its successful treatment with rituximab.

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