Publications by authors named "Hiromi Nuka"
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- * Factors linked to elevated IgG4 included male sex, older age, lower lipid and polyunsaturated fatty acid intake, and higher carbohydrate intake in both genders, with additional specific associations for men related to kidney function and blood sugar levels.
- * The findings suggest that elevated serum IgG4 levels are connected to age, gender, and diet, which may reflect similar patterns seen in IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD).
Objectives: Reportedly, patients with LN and low-level proteinuria have favourable short-term renal outcomes. We aimed to clarify the long-term renal outcomes and overall survival of these patients, and the significance of renal biopsy in the early phase with low-level proteinuria.
Methods: We included 144 Japanese patients with biopsy-proven LN from 10 hospitals.
We describe a 67-year-old man with immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) presenting with optic neuropathy, dacryoadenitis, periaortitis, retroperitoneal fibrosis, and a gastric mass-like lesion. A mass-like lesion measuring 52 × 40 mm in the antrum of the stomach was found incidentally through whole-body screening for other organ involvement of IgG4-RD using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT). Histology of the stomach revealed that the lesion was also IgG4-related and was located in the submucosal layer extending to the subserosal region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe a 66-year-old male with immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) presenting with minimal change disease (MCD). Three years prior to this admission, the patient had been diagnosed with IgG4-RD. The development of sudden massive proteinuria (4+; 16.
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