Before I was diagnosed with IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) in 2015, information about the symptoms was virtually nonexistent. I remember searching online for “intermittent chronic eyelid swelling” and finding very little. At one point, I came across only a handful of TikTok videos, and even those weren’t very helpful or…
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IgG4‑related disease (IgG4-RD) doesn’t behave like an illness; it behaves like a character — one with a personality so distinct that, after a while, I stopped describing symptoms and started describing traits. If diseases had temperaments, IgG4‑RD would be the quiet, calculating type. The one that sits in the…
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A new scoring system that standardizes how tissue samples are evaluated under a microscope for IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) may help doctors diagnose the body-wide, immune-mediated disease more accurately and consistently, a study suggested. The system assigns numerical scores to multiple microscopic features in patients’ tissue samples, providing a “standardized,…
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