Do ANCA-associated vasculitides and IgG4-related disease really overlap or not?

Abdulsamet Erden Ertuğrul Çağri BölekKubra Gozde YardimciLevent KilicSule Apras BilgenOmer Karadag

Published in: International journal of rheumatic diseases (2019)

None of our IgG4-RD patients overlapped with AAV. Only two patients in the literature review seemed to be fully compatible with both diseases. Even though AAV and IgG4-RD share similar clinical features, we think this might be a co-occurrence instead of a histopathological link.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
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chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
case report