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ArticleSAGE open medical case reports2022

Detectable serum IgM monoclonal gammopathy in non-hepatitis-associated mixed cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis: A case report and literature review.

Surasak Faisatjatham, Noppacharn Uaprasert, Kroonpong Iampenkhae, Suwasin Udomkarnjananun

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Article in SAGE open medical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Surasak FaisatjathamDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Noppacharn UaprasertDivision of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Kroonpong IampenkhaeDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
Suwasin UdomkarnjananunDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4087-9032
Chulalongkorn University · TH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryoglobulinemia is the presence of circulating cryoglobulin which can cause systemic vasculitis and glomerulonephritis. Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance is strongly associated with type I cryoglobulinemia, but the role of detectable serum monoclonal gammopathy in mixed (type II) cryoglobulinemia is not clearly established. We report a case of a 71-year-old woman who presented with skin rash, leg edema, and azotemia. Investigations showed a positive result for rheumatoid factor, low complement C4 level, positive result for serum cryoglobulin, and positive M-spike on serum protein electrophoresis and IgM kappa monoclonal gammopathy on serum immunofixation. Kidney biopsy revealed membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, polytypic IgM-dominant deposits in an immunofluorescence study, and microtubular substructures in an electron microscopic study. After an extensive workup, no evidence of myeloma or lymphoma was found. A diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance-associated mixed cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis was made. Due to the detectable IgM kappa monoclonal gammopathy in the patient's serum, clonal-directed therapy was administered. The patient had been in clinical remission after treatment with clone-directed therapy with cyclophosphamide and steroids. The literature review for cases of type II cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis that have detectable serum monoclonal gammopathy are summarized in this study.

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Cryoglobulinglomerulonephritiskidney pathologymonoclonal gammopathyvasculitis

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PMID36507058
PMCPMC9726840
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