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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1997-2-20
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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.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:chemical | |
pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Sep
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pubmed:issn |
0031-0808
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
38
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
175-8
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Antiviral Agents,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Chronic Disease,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Hepatitis C,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Interferon-beta,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Liver Cirrhosis,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Multiple Myeloma,
pubmed-meshheading:9009683-Paraproteinemias
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pubmed:year |
1996
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Case report of a monoclonal gammopathy in a patient with chronic hepatitis: effects of beta-IFN treatment.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Dipartimento di Internistica Clinica e Sperimentale F. Magrassi, II Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Case Reports
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