TY - JOUR AU - Lanzillotta, Marco AU - Della-Torre, Emanuel AU - Milani, Raffaella AU - Bozzolo, Enrica AU - Bozzalla-Cassione, Emanuele AU - Rovati, Lucrezia AU - Arcidiacono, Paolo Giorgio AU - Partelli, Stefano AU - Falconi, Massimo AU - Ciceri, Fabio AU - Dagna, Lorenzo PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/03 TI - Increase of circulating memory B cells after glucocorticoid-induced remission identifies patients at risk of IgG4-related disease relapse JO - Arthritis Research & Therapy SP - 222 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) promptly responds to glucocorticoids but relapses in a considerable fraction of patients. Reliable biomarkers of flare are currently lacking because the pathophysiology of IgG4-RD remains largely elusive. In the present work, we aimed to identify perturbations of B-cell subpopulations that might predict IgG4-RD relapse. SN - 1478-6362 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-018-1718-5 DO - 10.1186/s13075-018-1718-5 ID - Lanzillotta2018 ER -