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SUBMITTER: Kawashiri SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6293522 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kawashiri Shin-Ya SY Origuchi Tomoki T Umeda Masataka M Nishino Ayako A Shimizu Toshimasa T Fukui Shoichi S Koga Tomohiro T Iwamoto Naoki N Ichinose Kunihiro K Tamai Mami M Nakamura Hideki H Maeda Takahiro T Kawano Mitsuhiro M Yamamoto Motohisa M Izumi Yasumori Y Kawakami Atsushi A
Arthritis research & therapy 20181214 1
<h4>Background</h4>The aim of this study was to identify fibrosis-related serological surrogate outcome measures in patients with immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD).<h4>Methods</h4>This was a clinical observational study of 72 patients with untreated IgG4-RD from four institutions in Japan. The serum concentrations of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15), CCL2, hyaluronic acid (HA), amino-terminal propeptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP), and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinas ...[more]