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Lafarge A, Chean D, Whiting L, Clere-Jehl R. Management of hematological patients requiring emergency chemotherapy in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 2024; 50:849-860. [PMID: 38748265 PMCID: PMC11164740 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-024-07454-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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Hematological malignancies may require rapid-onset treatment because of their short doubling time, notably observed in acute leukemias and specific high-grade lymphomas. Furthermore, in targeted onco-hematological scenarios, chemotherapy is deemed necessary as an emergency measure when facing short-term, life-threatening complications associated with highly chemosensitive hematological malignancies. The risks inherent in the disease itself, or in the initiation of treatment, may then require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) to optimize monitoring and initial management protocols. Hyperleukocytosis and leukostasis in acute leukemias, tumor lysis syndrome, and disseminated intravascular coagulation are the most frequent onco-hematological complications requiring the implementation of emergency chemotherapy in the ICU. Chemotherapy must also be started urgently in secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Tumor-induced microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and plasma hyperviscosity due to malignant monoclonal gammopathy represent infrequent yet substantial indications for emergency chemotherapy. In all cases, the administration of emergency chemotherapy in the ICU requires close collaboration between intensivists and hematology specialists. In this review, we provide valuable insights that aid in the identification and treatment of patients requiring emergency chemotherapy in the ICU, offering diagnostic tools and guidance for their overall initial management.
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- Antoine Lafarge
- Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, APHP, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris University, Paris, France.
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- Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, APHP, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris University, Paris, France
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- Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, APHP, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris University, Paris, France
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- Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, Hôpital de Hautepierre, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Laboratoire d'ImmunoRhumatologie Moléculaire, INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR_S1109, Centre de Recherche d'Immunologie et d'Hématologie, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Patel SS, Shan HY. Renal-Limited Thrombotic Microangiopathy in a Patient Who Received Gemcitabine, Ramucirumab, and Pembrolizumab: A Case Report and Literature Review. Cureus 2024; 16:e53669. [PMID: 38455838 PMCID: PMC10918209 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.53669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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Cancer drug-induced thrombotic microangiopathy (DITMA) is an important and serious cause of kidney disease in cancer patients. In addition to classical chemotherapy, the increasing use of targeted therapy and immunotherapy has led to more oncotherapy-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). It is important for clinicians to recognize this potentially life-threatening adverse effect and gain knowledge of the patient's clinical course and treatment response. In this paper, we report a patient with lung cancer, who was treated with three different classes of anti-neoplastic agents, gemcitabine, ramucirumab, and pembrolizumab. This patient subsequently developed renal-limited thrombotic microangiopathy(rTMA) requiring hemodialysis. The varying features of TMA caused by these therapies were discussed. We also described the clinical course, diagnostic challenges, and management of this patient.
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- Sumit S Patel
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Stortz M, Shmanko K, Kraus D, Gairing S, Boedecker‐Lips S, Förster F, Weinmann A, Weinmann‐Menke J. Plasma exchange for treatment of a therapy-related thrombotic microangiopathy in a patient with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma-A case report. Clin Case Rep 2023; 11:e8124. [PMID: 37953891 PMCID: PMC10636558 DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.8124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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Key Clinical Message Thrombotic microangiopathies are a side effect of anti-VEGF therapies, which are often limited to the kidneys but can also occur systemically and be life-threatening. Screening for increasing proteinuria is essential. Abstract We present the case of a 65-year-old male patient with a multifocal HCC, Barcelona clinic liver cancer (BCLC) classification B at the time of diagnosis. The HCC was treated with nine sessions of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), and after a progress, the therapy was switched to a combination of atezolizumab and bevacizumab. Five months after therapy change, he presented with an acute kidney injury. The histopathology of the renal biopsy showed findings of a thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), which we treated with 12 sessions of therapeutic plasma exchange in combination with steroids, resulting in a decreased TMA activity and later in a remission of the TMA. This case suggests the importance of monitoring the kidney function and proteinuria in patients under anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy and shows a rare differential diagnosis for a worsening of kidney function in these patients. Furthermore, it shows that therapeutic plasma exchange might be a valuable therapeutic option for patients with TMA due to anti-VEGF therapy.
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- Marco Stortz
- Department of Nephrology, Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department of Nephrology, Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department of Nephrology, Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department for Internal Medicine and Clinical Registry UnitUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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- Department of Nephrology, Department for Internal MedicineUniversity Medical Center MainzMainzGermany
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Moore M, Afolayan-Oloye O, Kroneman O, Li W, Kanaan HD, Zhang PL. Proteinuria in thrombotic microangiopathy is associated with partial podocytopathy. Ultrastruct Pathol 2023; 47:219-226. [PMID: 36906888 DOI: 10.1080/01913123.2023.2189341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) results in acute kidney injury, but the cause of heavy proteinuria in this disorder is puzzling. The goal of this study was to determine if there were significant effacement of foot processes and CD133-positive hyperplastic podocytes in TMA to explain the proteinuria. METHODS The study included 12 negative controls (renal parenchyma removed from renal cell carcinoma) and 28 thrombotic microangiopathy due to different etiologies. The percent of foot process effacement was estimated, and proteinuria level was obtained for each TMA case. Both groups of cases were stained for CD133 by immunohistochemical method, and the number of positive CD133 in hyperplastic podocytes was counted and analyzed. RESULTS Nineteen (19) of 28 (68%) TMA cases had nephrotic range proteinuria (urine protein/creatinine >3). Twenty-one (21) of 28 (75%) TMA cases showed positive CD133 staining in scattered hyperplastic podocytes within Bowman's space but was absent in control cases. The percent of foot process effacement (56 ± 4%) correlated with proteinuria (protein/creatinine ratio 4.4 ± 0.6) (r = 0.46, p = .0237) in TMA group. CONCLUSION Our data indicate that the proteinuria in TMA can be associated with significant effacement of foot processes. CD133-positive hyperplastic podocytes can be seen in the majority of TMA cases of this cohort, indicating a partial podocytopathy.
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- Megan Moore
- Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Beaumont Labs, Royal Oak, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Beaumont Labs, Royal Oak, MI, USA
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Mazzierli T, Allegretta F, Maffini E, Allinovi M. Drug-induced thrombotic microangiopathy: An updated review of causative drugs, pathophysiology, and management. Front Pharmacol 2023; 13:1088031. [PMID: 36699080 PMCID: PMC9868185 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1088031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Drug-induced thrombotic microangiopathy (DITMA) represents 10%-13% of all thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) cases and about 20%-30% of secondary TMAs, just behind pregnancy-related and infection-related forms. Although the list of drugs potentially involved as causative for TMA are rapidly increasing, the scientific literature on DITMA is quite scarce (mostly as individual case reports or little case series), leading to poor knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical management. In this review, we focused on these critical aspects regarding DITMA. We provided an updated list of TMA-associated drugs that we selected from a scientific literature review, including only those drugs with a definite or probable causal association with TMA. The list of drugs is heterogeneous and could help physicians from several different areas to be familiar with DITMA. We describe the clinical features of DITMA, presenting the full spectrum of clinical manifestations, from systemic to kidney-limited forms. We also analyze the association between signs/symptoms (i.e., malignant hypertension, thrombocytopenia) and specific DITMA causative drugs (i.e., interferon, ticlopidine). We highlighted their multiple different pathophysiological mechanisms, being frequently classified as immune-mediated (idiosyncratic) and dose-related/toxic. In particular, to clarify the role of the complement system and genetic deregulation of the related genes, we conducted a revision of the scientific literature searching for DITMA cases who underwent renal biopsy and/or genetic analysis for complement genes. We identified a complement deposition in renal biopsies in half of the patients (37/66; 57%), with some drugs associated with major deposits (i.e., gemcitabine and ramucirumab), particularly in capillary vessels (24/27; 88%), and other with absent deposits (tyrosine kinase inhibitors and intraocular anti-VEGF). We also found out that, differently from other secondary TMAs (such as pregnancy-related-TMA and malignant hypertension TMA), complement genetic pathological mutations are rarely involved in DITMA (2/122, 1.6%). These data suggest a variable non-genetic complement hyperactivation in DITMA, which probably depends on the causative drug involved. Finally, based on recent literature data, we proposed a treatment approach for DITMA, highlighting the importance of drug withdrawal and the role of therapeutic plasma-exchange (TPE), rituximab, and anti-complementary therapy.
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- Tommaso Mazzierli
- Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy,Department of Biomedical Experimental and Clinical Sciences “Mario Serio”, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy,Department of Biomedical Experimental and Clinical Sciences “Mario Serio”, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Hematology, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy,Correspondence: Marco Allinovi,
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Rosner MH, Darmon M, Ostermann M. Onco-nephrology: what the intensivist needs to know. Intensive Care Med 2022; 48:1234-1236. [PMID: 35943571 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-022-06840-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mitchell H Rosner
- Division of Nephrology, University of Virginia Health, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.,Clinical Epidemiology, UMR 1153, Center of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CRESS, INSERM, Paris, France
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- Department of Critical Care, King's College London, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK.
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Garcia de Herreros M, Esposito F, Sauri T, Font C. Mild forms of thrombotic microangiopathy in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel. J Oncol Pharm Pract 2022; 29:738-745. [PMID: 35876362 DOI: 10.1177/10781552221114653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is an uncommon complication that may occur in cancer patients usually as an expression of cancer-associated coagulopathy or due to drug-related toxicity. The clinical spectrum of TMA may vary from an incidental laboratory finding in cancer outpatients to potentially severe life-threatening clinical forms with organ involvement requiring prompt recognition and multidisciplinary evaluation. CASE REPORTS We present the clinical characteristics and outcomes of four patients with advanced pancreatic cancer with acute non-immune intravascular haemolysis compatible with microangiopathic acute haemolytic anaemia associated with mild thrombocytopenia during long-term gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel treatment. MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES Abnormal blood parameters (all four cases) and renal involvement (one case) were reversed with a conservative approach and chemotherapy discontinuation. One patient required a short hospitalization while the other three were managed as outpatients. The rapid reversibility of the blood abnormalities supported gemcitabine dose-related toxicity as the most likely aetiologic mechanism and demonstrates the current challenges in daily long-term cancer survivor care. DISCUSSION Clinicians must take into account TMA in the differential diagnosis of acute anaemia with or without thrombocytopenia and organ damage, since adequate recognition and early treatment discontinuation allow effective outpatient management and favourable patient outcomes.
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- Medical Oncology Department, 16493Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, 16493Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, 16493Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in adult patients with solid tumors: a challenging complication in the era of emerging anticancer therapies. Support Care Cancer 2022; 30:8599-8609. [PMID: 35545722 PMCID: PMC9095052 DOI: 10.1007/s00520-022-06935-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a syndrome that encompasses a group of disorders defined by the presence of endothelial damage leading to abnormal activation of coagulation, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, occlusive (micro)vascular dysfunction, and organ damage. TMA may occur in patients with malignancy as a manifestation of cancer-related coagulopathy itself or tumor-induced TMA (Ti-TMA) as a paraneoplastic uncommon manifestation of Trousseau syndrome. TMA can also be triggered by other overlapping conditions such as infections or more frequently as an adverse effect of anticancer drugs (drug-induced TMA or Di-TMA) due to direct dose-dependent toxicity or a drug-dependent antibody reaction. The clinical spectrum of TMA may vary widely from asymptomatic abnormal laboratory tests to acute severe potentially life-threatening forms due to massive microvascular occlusion. While TMA is a rare condition, its incidence may progressively increase within the context of the great development of anticancer drugs and the emerging scenarios in supportive care in cancer. The objective of the present narrative review is to provide a general perspective of the main causes, the key work-up clues that allow clinicians to diagnose and manage TMA in patients with solid tumors who develop anemia and thrombocytopenia due to frequent overlapping causes.
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Pham B, Kwon SM, Castillo DR, Majeed Y, Ahmad S, Hou J, Ganesan L, Mohammad S, Cao H. Late renal toxicity in patient with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer treated with lenvatinib: A case report and literature review. J Oncol Pharm Pract 2022; 28:1930-1935. [DOI: 10.1177/10781552221092329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Introduction Thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine neoplasm. Multimodal therapy including surgery, radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy, and indefinite suppression of thyroid-stimulating hormone has led to an 85% cure rate in differentiated thyroid tumors (DTT). Approximately 5–10% of patients will have recurrence or metastases that have the potential to become resistant to RAI treatment. 1 10-year overall survival rates are reported to be 10% in these patients versus 56% in patients with RAI avid disease. 2 Lenvatinib, a multi-tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI), was shown to have a 65% overall response rate in addition to a significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS), approved to treat RAI-resistant DTTs. 3 , 4 Case Report We are reporting a very rare case of late renal toxicity in a 68-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes and metastatic RAI-resistant follicular thyroid carcinoma (Hurthle cell variant) who developed thrombotic microangiopathy 21 months after initiation of treatment. Management & Outcome It was determined that LEN should be held, due to worsening renal function secondary to TKI-induced kidney injury. Although the patient's renal function eventually improved and returned to her baseline after discontinuation of LEN, there was marked disease progression after drug cessation. Discussion Renal toxicity is a rare adverse event (AE) that tends to occur typically within three weeks of initiation of treatment. The utilization of TKIs can lead to glomerulosclerosis, and careful considerations and precautions should be taken by clinicians who intend to initiate TKI therapy in patients with pre-existing diabetes to prevent renal toxicity.
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- Bryan Pham
- Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Hematology/Oncology Department, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Department of Nephrology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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- Hematology/Oncology Department, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
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Filippone EJ, Newman ED, Li L, Gulati R, Farber JL. Thrombotic Microangiopathy, an Unusual Form of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance: Report of 3 Cases and Literature Review. Front Immunol 2021; 12:780107. [PMID: 34858436 PMCID: PMC8631422 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.780107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Monoclonal gammopathies result from neoplastic clones of the B-cell lineage and may cause kidney disease by various mechanisms. When the underlying clone does not meet criteria for a malignancy requiring treatment, the paraprotein is called a monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS). One rarely reported kidney lesion associated with benign paraproteins is thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), provisionally considered as a combination signifying MGRS. Such cases may lack systemic features of TMA, such as a microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and the disease may be kidney limited. There is no direct deposition of the paraprotein in the kidney, and the presumed mechanism is disordered complement regulation. We report three cases of kidney limited TMA associated with benign paraproteins that had no other detectable cause for the TMA, representing cases of MGRS. Two of the cases are receiving clone directed therapy, and none are receiving eculizumab. We discuss in detail the pathophysiological basis for this possible association. Our approach to therapy involves first ruling out other causes of TMA as well as an underlying B-cell malignancy that would necessitate direct treatment. Otherwise, clone directed therapy should be considered. If refractory to such therapy or the disease is severe and multisystemic, C5 inhibition (eculizumab or ravulizumab) may be indicated as well.
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- Edward J Filippone
- Divsion of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Divsion of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Divsion of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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