Optimising corticosteroid treatment for autoimmune pancreatitis

Unanswered questions Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is part of a systemic fibro-inflammatory disease that can involve multiple organs which characteristically have a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate rich in IgG4-positive cells. IgG4-related systemic disease (ISD) has been proposed by Kamisawa et al as the umbrella term to describe this multi-organ disease.1 Although the fibrosis in ISD can often lead to damage and even destruction of the involved...