IgG4-related disease is a newly recognized fibro-inflammatory condition characterized by
several features: a tendency to form tumefactive lesions in multiple sites; a characteristic …

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immunemediated fibroinflammatory condition that can
affect multiple organs and lead to tumefactive, tissuedestructive lesions and organ failure (1)…

Objective IgG4‐related disease (IgG4‐ RD ) can cause fibroinflammatory lesions in nearly
any organ. Correlation among clinical, serologic, radiologic, and pathologic data is required …

… Methods Two IgG4-RD study groups, the Umehara and Okazaki teams, were organized by
… Umehara and Okazaki teams, respectively. Collaborations of the two study groups involved …

Objective To develop and validate an international set of classification criteria for primary
Sjögren's syndrome (SS) using guidelines from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) …

Objective We propose new classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome (SS), which are
needed considering the emergence of biologic agents as potential treatments and their …

During the first decade of this century, recognition of a multi-organ system disease known
as IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) has grown. Serum IgG4 elevation (in some patients) and …

… H Umehara1 … with IgG 4 +MOLPS/Mikulicz’s disease and (G, H) patients with Sjögren’s
syndrome. (A, G) H&E … (E–H) MRCT T1 imaging of another patient. (E, G) Frontal cross-section. (F, …

… One of these groups, chaired by Professor Umehara of Kanazawa Medical University, is …
Masaki Y, Umehara H. IgG4-related disease–the diagnostic confusion and how to avoid it. …

… h in KSOM and the methylation status of the genome was analysed using anti-5MeC antibody
(5MeC, green; DAPI, blue). H … Ten and 18 zygotes were injected with H 2 O and RanBP5–…