Conditions once viewed as separate disease entities and now recognised as a manifestation of immunoglobulin G subclass 4-related disease (adapted from Khosroshahi and Stone2)
Original terminology | Organ target |
Autoimmune pancreatitis | Pancreas |
Sclerosing cholangitis | Biliary tree |
Mikulicz's syndrome | Salivary and lacrimal glands |
Kuttner's tumour | Submandibular glands |
Riedel's thyroiditis | Thyroid |
Retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond's disease) | Retro peritoneum |
Mediastinal fibrosis | Mediastinum |
Chronic sclerosing aortitis | Aorta |
Inflammatory abdominal aortitis | Abdominal aorta |
Orbital pseudotumour | Orbital adnexa |
Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis | Orbits, sinuses and nasal cavities |
Multifocal fibrosclerosis | Orbits, thyroid gland, retroperitoneum, mediastinum and other tissues |
Idiopathic hypocomplementaemic tubulointerstitial nephritis with extensive tubulointerstitial deposits | Kidney |