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. 2020 Feb 3;9(2):409. doi: 10.3390/jcm9020409

Table 3.

Demographic and clinical features of patients with AIP type 1 and cardiovascular involvement.

N Gender Age Type of AIP Onset and Type
of Vasculitis
Treatment Smoking Status
1 male 75 Type 1 4 years after AIP diagnosis: asymmetric thickening of aorta wall (up till 5 mm) in infrarenal part of aorta Rituximab and CST 10 mg Former (30 PY)
2 * male 66 Type 1 4 years after AIP diagnosis: thickening of aorta wall over the bifurcation Azathioprine and CST 10 mg Never
3 male 57 Type 1 At the time of AIP diagnosis:
circumferential thickening of aorta wall
Rituximab Never
4 * male 66 Type 1 GPA 9 months after AIP: diagnosis with lung and bowel involvement Rituximab and CST 2.5 mg Never
5 * female 65 Type 1 GPA 2 months after AIP: diagnosis with lung involvement Rituximab Never
6 male 65 Type 1 1 year after AIP diagnosis: mild thickening in infrarenal part of aorta No treatment so far Never
7 male 68 Type 1 3 months after AIP diagnosis: vasculitis in form of skin changes Previously treated with CST and now hematologic treatment with lenalidomide (multiple myeloma) Former (8 PY)
8 * male 85 Type 1 At the time of AIP diagnosis: imaging signs of periaortitis Previously treated with CST, currently no treatment Former (10 PY)
9 * female 24 Type 1 At the time of AIP diagnosis: eosinophilic myocarditis Previously with CST, currently no treatment Never
10 * male 50 Type 1 5 years before AIP diagnosis: Churg Strauss syndrome, pericarditis and eosinophilic myocarditis, patients also had Erdheim Chester disease and hyper eosinophilic syndrome Rituximab Never

AIP-autoimmune pancreatitis; CST-corticosteroids; PY-pack-year; * patients also in Table 2; GPA-granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis); AIP NOS-autoimmune pancreatitis non-otherwise specified; age-age of patients at the time of AIP diagnosis.