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- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016Author's replyShow More
Dear Author
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a recently described clinical entity, in which autoimmune mechanisms are involved in pathogenesis. As Etemand et al.[1] described that autoimmunity was one of six risk factors of chronic pancreatitis, autoimmune pancreatitis is not acute but chronic pancreatitis. Patients with autoimmune pancreatitis rarely showed acute attacks of pancreatitis or marked elevation of serum...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 April 2016Primary antiphospholipid syndrome as a new cause of autoimmune pancreatitisShow More
Dear Editor
I read with interest the recent article by Kamisawa et al. regarding the aetiology of autoimmune pancreatitis.[1] The cause of a significant proportion of cases of acute pancreatitis remains uncertain. I would like to describe a case of acute pancreatitis associated with antiphospholipid syndrome to highlight another potentially important cause of autoimmune pancreatitis which I believe has not...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 April 2016Response to steroid therapy of sclerosing cholangitis after duodenopancreatectomy due to autoimmuneShow More
Dear Editor,
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a chronic inflammation of the pancreas due to etiopathogenic mechanisms of autoimmunity. There are no established definitive diagnostic criteria, although histological, analytical and radiological characteristics do enable us to identify this entity in the differential diagnosis with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis and cancer of the pancreas [1,2,3]. Nevertheless, this is no...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 April 2016Author's replyShow More
Dear Editor
We thank Dr Taniguchi et al. for his interesting presentation of interstitial pneumonia associated with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP).
We have experienced 24 cases of AIP, however, no cases showed interstitial pneumonia clinically. Recently we immunohistochemically examined the organs of eight patients with AIP using anti-IgG4 antibody. Many IgG4-positive plasmacytic infiltration was dete...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 April 2016Interstitial pneumonia associated with autoimmune pancreatitisShow More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the article by Kamisawa and colleagues reporting IgG4-positive plasma cells in the peripancreatic tissue, extraphepatic bile duct, gall bladder, and salivary gland.[1] The association of retroperitoneal fibrosis and sclerosing pancreatitis with IgG4 -bearing plasma cells in the tissues of both lesions has been also reported.[2]
We would like to report the first case of...
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