Mikulicz's Disease With Immune Thrombocytopenia: A New Immunoglobulin G4-Mediated Disorder and Literature Review.
Arch Rheumatol 2018;
34:343-347. [PMID:
31598602 DOI:
10.5606/archrheumatol.2019.7070]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Mikulicz's disease (MD), an immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease, is a fibrosis-associated inflammatory disease characterized by painless bilat- eral swelling of lacrimal and salivary glands. Although thrombocytopenia is associated with many rheumatologic disorders, it is rare in IgG4-related MD. This novel study aims to report a rare case of IgG4-related MD complicated with severe autoimmune thrombocytopenia without any hemato- logical malignancies and review all cases of IgG4-related disease associated with thrombocytopenia in the literature.
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