How would you manage a patient with highly active ankylosing spondylitis, iritis and Crohn’s, controlled with weekly adalimumab with co-morbid IgG4RD and intolerance of azathioprine due to elevated LFTs?
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Rheumatology · Massachusetts General Hospital
There is not a known association between IgG4-RD and IBD or spondyloarthritis. Given that these are rare diseases, it is important to ensure diagnostic accuracy, as the combination of these diseases would be unusual, though not impossible.
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