International Survey of Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Japan Korea Taiwan China Number of patients 137 118 47 25 Average age (years) 62.2 57.2 64.9 54.0 Gender (% male) 109 (80 %) 85 (72 %) 42 (89…
Occurrence of Malignant Neoplasms
Nishino [16] Hart [9] Yamamoto [18] Shiokawa [17] Publication year 2006 2012 2012 2013 Number of pt. with AIP 12 1,064 106 108 Number of pt. with malignancy 2…
Treatment of Relapsed Autoimmune Pancreatitis
2. Sarles H, Sarles JC, Muratore R, Guien C. Chronic inflammatory sclerosis of the pancreas – an autonomous pancreatic disease? Am J Dig Dis. 1961;6:688–98.PubMedCrossRef 3. Kawaguchi K, Koike M,…
IgG4-Related Gastrointestinal Lesion
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015Terumi Kamisawa and Jae Bock Chung (eds.)Autoimmune Pancreatitis10.1007/978-3-642-55086-7_21 21. IgG4-Related Gastrointestinal Lesion Satomi Koizumi1 , Terumi Kamisawa1 and Sawako Kuruma1 (1) Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8677, Japan …
Tissue Acquisition for Histologic Diagnosis
Author (year) Nation Number Technique Diagnostic yield Levy (2006) [6] United States 14 EUS-trucut Diagnostic 57 % (8/14) Suggestive 29 % (4/14) Inconclusive 14 % (2/14) Hirano (2009) [5] Japan…
Diagnostic Criteria of Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Diagnosis Primary basis for diagnosis Imaging evidence Collateral evidence Definitive type 1 AIP Histology Typical/indeterminate Histologically confirmed LPSP Imaging Typical Any non-D level 1/level 2 Indeterminate Two or more from…
Pathophysiology of Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Fig. 3.1 Characteristic forms of IgG4. (a) Schematic representation of the generation of bispecific IgG4 antibodies by the exchange of half-molecules (“Fab-arm exchange”) (With permission from the publisher of van…
Epidemiology of Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Stratification Departmentsin Japan Selectionrate (%) Departmentsnominated Departmentsreplying Replyrate (%) Departmentsreplying New cases(male/female) Continuous cases(male/female) Total(male/female) Specialty hospital 80 100 80 58 72.5 58 121 (89/32) 255 (201/54) 376 (290/86) University…
Overview of Type 1 and Type 2 AIP
Year Author Reported findings 1961 Sarles et al. [1] Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis associated with hypergammaglobulinemia;suggested an autoimmune mechanism 1991 Kawaguchi et al. [3] Lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis (LPSP) 1995 Yoshida et…
