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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
A sixty-one-year-old woman, with cirrhosis, presented with a monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGSU). Often in a condition of cirrhosis is present a benign M component hypergammaglobulinemia. The electrophoresis and the immunophoresis showed a dense papraprotein in the gamma-region, an IgG with K light chain, an uncertain Bence-Jones proteinuria, a medullary plasmacytosis (9%), and a following growth of paraprotein were present. Lymphoblastic plasma cell were absent. Treatment with beta-IFN 6 MU for a period of six months and 3 MU for a further period of three months proved ineffective for hepatic disease, but produced a quantitative reduction in gamma-G globulin, the Bence-Jones proteinuria was absent, a reduction in M component and in medullary plasmacytosis. Electrophoresis showed a polyclonal evolution of the gammopathy. Suspension of treatment was followed by de novo rise of monoclonal immunoglobulin. The authors report the use of beta-IFN in the therapy of multiple myeloma.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0031-0808
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
38
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
175-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Case report of a monoclonal gammopathy in a patient with chronic hepatitis: effects of beta-IFN treatment.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Internistica Clinica e Sperimentale F. Magrassi, II Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports