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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IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can in some cases affect the voice box, causing symptoms such as voice changes and difficulty breathing. These cases can also be difficult to diagnose and treat, a review study highlights. Noting that this rare manifestation of IgG4-RD is likely to go unrecognized, the researchers emphasized…
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