IgG4-Related Kidney Disease

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Saito, Takao (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stone, John H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Nakashima, Hitoshi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Saeki, Takako (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kawano, Mitsuhiro (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Nephrology.; Rheumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book offers a detailed review of the pathological and imaging features, diagnosis and treatment of IgG4-Related Kidney Disease (IgG4-RKD). IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), which is characterized by an elevated serum IgG4 level and infiltration of systemic organs by IgG4 positive plasma cells, is...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. General Remarks
• 1. IgG4-Related Disease: History and Overview
• 2. IgG4-Related Disease: Pathological Features and Differential Diagnosis
• 3. Potential Pathways in The Pathogenesis of IgG4-Related Disease
• 4. Does IgG4-Related Disease Have an Autoimmune Basis?
• 5. Plasmablasts: A Promising Biomarker in IgG4-RD
• Part II. Features of IgG4-Related Ridney Disease and Associated Conditions
• 6. Overview of IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• 7. IgG4-Related Kidney Disease: Clinical and Laboratory Features
• 8. Imaging Findings
• 9. Characteristic Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• 10. Electron Microscopic Findings
• 11. IgG4-RelatedKidney Disease: Pathological Features –Membranous Glomerulonephritis
• 12. IgG4-RelatedKidney Disease: Pathological Features –Other Glomerular Disease
• 13. IgG4-Related kKidney Diseases and Conditions: Renal Pelvic and Ureteral Diseases
• 14. Retroperitoneal Fibrosis/Periaortitis and Hydronephrosis
• 15. Other Urogenital Lesions (Testis, Paratesticular Lesion, Bladder, Prostate etc.)
• 16. Characteristic Distribution of Inflammatory Lesions in IgG4-Related Kidney Disease: Findings from Autopsy Case Series
• 17. Diagnosis of IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• 18. Pathogenesis of IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• Part III. Treatment of IgG4-RD and IgG4-RKD
• 19. Corticosteroid Therapy for IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• 20. Targeting the B Cell Lineage in IgG4-Related Disease
• Part IV. Differential Diagnosis of IgG4-RKD
• 21. Differential Diagnosis of IgG4-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis –An Overview
• 22. Differential Diagnosis (1): ANCA Associated Vasculitis
• 23. Differential Diagnosis (2): Castleman Disease
• 24. Differential Diagnosis (3): Sjögren Syndrome
• 25. Differential Diagnosis: Lupus Nephritis and IgG4-Related Kidney Disease
• Part V. Lessons from Cases
• 26. Multicentric Castleman’s Disease Mimicking IgG4-Related Disease; A Case Report
• 27. A Case of Concurrent IgG4-Related Kidney Disease and Lupus Nephritis.