Active clinical trials for "Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease"

This is an open-label study to investigate the diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computed tomography) in evaluation of patients with IgG4-related disease. A single dose of 18F-FDG will be intravenously injected into patients with IgG4-related disease before and after treatment.

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune-mediated, fibro-inflammatory disease that leads to tissue damage, organ dysfunction and, if untreated, to organ failure. The disease can affect almost any anatomic location, but the sites involved most commonly are the pancreas, salivary glands, orbital adnexa, lymph nodes, and retroperitoneum. IgG4-RD, typically diagnosed among individuals who are middle-aged, is characterized by a male predominance except with regard to organs of the head and neck (e.g., the salivary glands and orbits), where the gender distribution is approximately equal. The epidemiology of IgG4-RD remains poorly understood because of its recognition only recently as a multi-organ disease. However, IgG4-RD accounts for many conditions once regarded as disparate, single-organ disorders The purpose of our study is to evaluate the method of plasmablast measurement in peripheral blood of IgG4-RD patients, for diagnosis and follow-up on disease progression and response to treatment. This document will outline the collection, processing and testing procedures for measuring plasmablasts from IgG4-RD patients

IgG4 Related Disease is a multi-systemic fibroenophilic disease that includes a basket of recently discovered medical conditions. The properties that bind them are: lesions similar to tumors in the mixed organs, lymphoplasms filtrate enriched with plasma IgG4 positive cells, storiform fibrosis, and often, but not always, a high level of IgG4 in the serum. This disease has been on the rise for the past two decades and since its recognition in 2001 there has been impressive progress in understanding its various manifestations, so that today almost every body system can be involved. One of the conditions associated with this disease is oritis / periortitis and aneurysms

300 IgG4-RD patients, 200 other autoimmune diseases, 60 IgG4-RD mimickers and 100 healthy controls were enrolled. Circulating plasmablast/plasma cells were detected of all patients at baseline and healthy controls. IgG4-RD patients were followed up every 3-6 months. Circulating plasmablast/plasma cells were also detected at disease remission and relapse. IgG4-RD patients' clinical data and laboratory parameters were collected.