Diagnosis and treatment of kidney involvement in plasma cell diseases: Renal involvement in multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathies

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Background: Kidney involvement is a common complication in patients with plasma cell diseases. Objective: This article outlines the spectrum of renal involvement in plasma cell dyscrasia and describes diagnostic and therapeutic measures to guide clinical management. Material and methods: Evaluation and discussion of the current literature as well as existing guidelines and recommendations of professional societies. Results: The clinical manifestations of renal involvement in plasma cell disorders are heterogeneous and range from acute cast nephropathy in multiple myeloma to rare forms of glomerulonephritis. The term monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS) was introduced to describe kidney involvement caused by monoclonal gammopathy but without evidence for underlying malignancy. Light chain cast nephropathy is the most common renal manifestation in multiple myeloma, whereas monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease (MIDD) and renal light chain (AL) amyloidosis can be found in multiple myeloma and MGRS. Decisive is the extended hematological diagnostics in order to exclude the presence of a hematological neoplasm. The treatment of renal involvement in monoclonal gammopathies involves the reduction of the plasma cell clone with cytoreductive treatment. The reduction of the monoclonal protein in serum is prognostically relevant for the renal response to treatment. In the case of histological evidence of a light chain cast nephropathy, high cut-off dialysis is recommended to reduce the free light chains in serum. Conclusion: The spectrum of renal manifestations in plasma cell dyscrasia has been expanded, particularly since the introduction of the term MGRS. Diagnostic and therapeutic management remain an interdisciplinary challenge.

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Gödecke, V., Schmidt, J. J., Bräsen, J. H., Koenecke, C., & Haller, H. (2019, January 1). Diagnosis and treatment of kidney involvement in plasma cell diseases: Renal involvement in multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathies. Internist. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00108-018-0538-7

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