ArticleThe Journal of international medical research2025
Initial misdiagnosis to a revised diagnosis of pulmonary paragonimiasis with elevated serum immunoglobulin G4 concentrations: a case report.
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- Quantitative total serum IgG4 reporting in human paragonimiasis: a scoping review.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Review
- Occupational exposure to freshwater crustaceans as a route of paragonimiasis presenting with eosinophilic pleural effusion misdiagnosed as tuberculous pleurisy: A case report and literature review.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2026Article
- IgG4 elevation dilemma at the crossroads of helminth infection and IgG4-related disease: insights from a case report of pediatric paragonimiasis with persistent pericardial effusion.Translational pediatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
An elevation in serum immunoglobulin (Ig) G4 concentrations at only one time point is not a definitive diagnostic marker for IgG4-related diseases. We report two cases of pulmonary paragonimiasis with elevated serum IgG4 concentrations. Patient 1 was a woman in her late 40s with cough and dyspnea for 1 week. Patient 2 was a woman in her late 60s with a cough, bloody sputum, chest pain, and wheezing for over 1 month. Patient 1 had eosinophilia, high IgE, IgG, and IgG4 concentrations, right pleural effusion, and lung lesions, resembling tuberculosis. Patient 2 had cavitary lung lesions, pleural involvement, and eosinophilia, and high IgE, IgG, and IgG4 concentrations, with a history of eating raw river crabs. Both patients tested positive for
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