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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Rheumatology Volume 2012, Article ID 232960, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/232960 Clinical Study Spectrum of Disorders Associated with Elevated Serum IgG4 Levels Encountered in Clinical Practice Jay H. Ryu,1 Ryohei Horie,1 Hiroshi Sekiguchi,1 Tobias Peikert,1 and Eunhee S. Yi2 1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Gonda 18 South, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA 2 Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Jay H. Ryu, ryu.jay@ Received 26 February 2012; Accepted 19 March 2012 Academic Editor: Hisanori Umehara Copyright © 2012 Jay H. Ryu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a recently described systemic fibroinflammatory disease associated with elevated circulating levels of IgG4 and manifests a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Although serum IgG4 level has been described to be the most sensitive and specific laboratory test for the diagnosis of IgG4-RD, it is recognized that an elevated serum IgG4 level can be encountered in other diseases. In this study, we sought to identify the frequency of IgG4-RD and other disease associations in patients with elevated serum IgG4 levels seen in clinical practice. Among 3,300 patients who underwent IgG subclass testing over a 2-year period from January 2009 to December 2010, 158 (4.8%) had an elevated serum IgG4 level (140 mg/dL). IgG4 subclass testing was performed for evaluation of suspected IgG4-RD or immunodeficiency. Twenty-nine patients (18.4%) had definite or