TY - JOUR T1 - Pulmonary hypertension associated with obliterative phlebitis in IgG4-related lung disease JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 842 LP - 845 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00130314 VL - 45 IS - 3 AU - Jun Fukihara AU - Yasuhiro Kondoh AU - Hiroyuki Taniguchi AU - Tomoki Kimura AU - Kensuke Kataoka AU - Toshiaki Matsuda AU - Toshiki Yokoyama AU - Kenzo Ono AU - Yukio Kashima AU - Junya Fukuoka Y1 - 2015/03/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/3/842.abstract N2 - IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic fibroinflammatory disease associated with elevated serum IgG4 level and IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration into multiple organs [1]. In 2001, Hamano et al. [2] reported that patients with autoimmune pancreatitis have high-serum IgG4 concentrations. Subsequently, IgG4-related lesions similar to those of autoimmune pancreatitis have been identified in other organs [1] including the lungs [3]. Pulmonary hypertension can be caused by obliterative phlebitis in patients with IgG4-related lung disease http://ow.ly/EEjvE ER -