Dense IgG4 plasma cell infiltrates associated with chronic infectious aortitis: Implications for the diagnosis of IgG4-related disease

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 470-475

  Siddiquee, Zakir ^a   Zane, Nicholas A ^a   Smith, R Neal ^a   Stone, James R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortitis; Diagnostic criteria; IgG4; IgG4 related disease; Infection; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AORTA OCCLUSION; AORTITIS; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL; POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PLASMA CELLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84868576838     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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