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Muthukumaran A, Wanchoo R, Seshan SV, Gudsoorkar P. Paraneoplastic Glomerular Diseases. ADVANCES IN KIDNEY DISEASE AND HEALTH 2024; 31:346-357. [PMID: 39084760 DOI: 10.1053/j.akdh.2024.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024]
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Paraneoplastic glomerular disease (PGD) develops from tumor cell products, leading to renal dysfunction. Unlike direct tumor effects, PGD illustrates the complex association between cancer and diverse clinical presentations and outcomes. Initially detected in a Hodgkin's disease patient, current research has defined diagnostic criteria based on PGD symptoms and cancer progression. PGDs, although rare (found in <1% of adult cancer patients with overt renal manifestations), are crucial, as they can signal cancer onset and frequently resist standard glomerulonephritis treatments. The emerging field of onconephrology studies this relationship between kidney disorders and cancers. The exact cause of many PGD cases remains unknown. This review examines PGDs, their clinicopathological features, related cancers, and mechanisms, emphasizing the need for early diagnosis and tailored treatment for kidney disease and linked cancer.
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- Aarthi Muthukumaran
- Division of Nephrology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare, NHS, London, UK
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- Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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Multiple Faces of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia: A Patient with Renal, Cardiac, and Skeletal Complications. Case Rep Nephrol 2019; 2019:5390235. [PMID: 30993024 PMCID: PMC6434293 DOI: 10.1155/2019/5390235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We describe a patient who had chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) Binet stage A at presentation with further evidence of disease at multiple sites but who initially required no treatment. However, several years later, her peripheral blood lymphocyte count started to increase, and soon after that she suffered an acute myocardial infarct (in the absence of coronary atheroma) together with proteinuric renal failure due to membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Her renal function improved markedly following anti-CLL chemotherapy. We postulate that her cardiac and renal disease were both complications of her CLL. In patients with CLL who develop new clinical signs or symptoms (even if apparently unrelated), consideration should be given as to whether these may be disease complications as this may serve as an indication to commence anti-CLL therapy; close liaison between different specialties is vital.
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Arora S, Levitan D, Regmi N, Sidhu G, Gupta R, Nicastri AD, Saggi SJ, Braverman A. Cryoglobulinemia in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia - A case report and review of literature of renal involvement in CLL. Blood Cells Mol Dis 2016; 60:7-11. [PMID: 27519936 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2016.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2016] [Revised: 05/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/21/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The incidence of glomerulonephritis, as a manifestation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), has always been considered low. Though renal infiltration is usually detected at post-mortem, it does not often interfere with kidney function [1]. Though immunoglobulin (Ig) levels in most CLL patients are subnormal, small monoclonal Ig peaks are occasionally detected in serum. They were present in a number of reported CLL nephropathy patients, and not all were cryoglobulins; serum and glomerular staining were concordant for Ig type [2,3,4]. Myeloma, which secretes monoclonal light chains, causes nephropathy in 25% of patients. But the little presumably secreted by small plasma cell clones, without myeloma, may also be nephrotoxic. The same is true of the low secretory CLL cells, which may occasionally be associated with cryoglobulins and other nephrotoxic Igs [5]. We report a patient with early stage CLL (Rai stage 0) with cryoglobulins, which led to membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), and death. We located reports of 51 patients with CLL-associated nephrotic syndrome or nephropathy, mostly from MPGN related to local Ig deposits. In those patients screened for cryoglobulins, about half tested positive. Many were early stage cases, where MPGN developed long after CLL presentation, and responded to its treatment. As early diagnosis and treatment CLL-related nephropathy may be curative, we propose a prospective study to determine the incidence of hyperalbuminuria development after presentation.
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- Swaty Arora
- Department of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, State University New York, Downstate, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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- Department of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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- Department of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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- Department of Pathology, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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- Department of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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- Department of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, State University New York, Downstate, USA
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Monoclonal gammopathy is produced by neoplastic or non-neoplastic expansion of a clone of plasma cells or B lymphocytes. Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance is characterized by low levels of the monoclonal protein and a relatively small population of clonal lymphocytes or plasma cells in the bone marrow. In these cases, the patient is asymptomatic with no evidence of overt myeloma or lymphoma. The abnormal serum protein may be present as a complete immunoglobulin molecule or may consist of ≥1 of its components such as light chains or heavy chains. These proteins may cause a variety of diseases in various tissues and organs, of which the kidney appears to be the most vulnerable. Renal involvement in monoclonal gammopathy may occur as part of a generalized disease such as amyloidosis, immunoglobulin deposition disease, and cryoglobulinemia. In addition, there may be evidence of kidney damage by processes which are renal specific. These include light chain proximal tubulopathy, light chain cast nephropathy, and a variety of glomerulopathies encompassing a wide spectrum of disease patterns.
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Dasanu CA, Van den Bergh M, Pepito D, Alvarez Argote J. Autoimmune disorders in patients with hairy cell leukemia: are they more common than previously thought? Curr Med Res Opin 2015; 31:17-23. [PMID: 25265129 DOI: 10.1185/03007995.2014.971358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND For a number of decades, hairy cell leukemia (HCL) has been linked with polyarthritis, vasculitis, symptomatic cytopenias and thrombosis in the medical literature. Notwithstanding, the significance of these associations has not been well understood. Therefore, we have decided to analyze them further. METHODS We provide herein a comprehensive literature review of the prevalence of autoimmune disorders in patients with HCL. Most relevant publications were identified through searching the PubMed/Medline database for articles published from inception to February 2014. FINDINGS Perhaps due to the rarity of HCL, scientific literature on autoimmune conditions in patients with HCL consists mainly of published case series and isolated reports. Our analysis identified increased prevalence of various autoimmune conditions in patients with HCL, including various vasculitides, immune cytopenias and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) among others. CONCLUSIONS Presence of certain autoimmune disorders should increase the suspicion of HCL in an appropriate clinico-laboratory context. Conversely, the diagnosis of HCL should prompt early recognition of certain autoimmune disorders if clinical suspicion exists. While some of these autoimmune diseases are thought to be secondary to the dysfunctional immune response associated with underlying malignant process, others could be primary and might even play a role in the HCL pathogenesis. The autoimmune complications can pose important clinical problems for the HCL patients. Therefore, a catalogue of these problems is important for alerting physicians to watch for them and diagnose them promptly.
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- Constantin A Dasanu
- Lucy Curci Cancer Center, Eisenhower Medical Center , Rancho Mirage, CA , USA
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Bazari H, Mahindra AK, Farkash EA. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 3-2014. A 61-year-old woman with gastrointestinal symptoms, anemia, and acute kidney injury. N Engl J Med 2014; 370:362-73. [PMID: 24450895 DOI: 10.1056/nejmcpc1214220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Oe Y, Joh K, Sato M, Taguma Y, Onishi Y, Nakayama K, Sato T. Proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal IgM-κ deposits in chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic leukemia: case report and review of the literature. CEN Case Rep 2013; 2:222-227. [PMID: 28509294 DOI: 10.1007/s13730-013-0068-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2012] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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A 48-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented with nephrotic syndrome, hematuria, and mild deterioration of renal function. Further analysis using serum immunofixation electrophoresis detected monoclonal immunoglobulin (Ig) M-κ and IgG-κ M-protein. Testing for cryoglobulin in serum was negative. Light microscopy of a renal biopsy specimen showed membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis features with marked mononuclear cell infiltration in the interstitium. On immunofluorescence study, the deposition of IgM heavy chain was predominantly observed with the same distribution of κ light chain, whereas no λ light chain was found. Electron microscopy revealed fine granular deposits in the mesangial, subendothelial, and subepithelial areas, mimicking those observed in the immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis. These pathological findings were consistent with recently described cases of proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal IgG deposits. Thus, monoclonal IgM deposition can also cause proliferative glomerulonephritis.
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- Yuji Oe
- Department of Nephrology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan. .,Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Vascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan.
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- Department of Pathology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Vascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Sendai Shakai Hoken Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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Wen YK, Wen KI. Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis as a presenting feature of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Int Urol Nephrol 2012; 46:217-21. [PMID: 23233032 DOI: 10.1007/s11255-012-0352-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2012] [Accepted: 11/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We report a 64-year-old man who was referred with gross hematuria and acute renal failure. Initial laboratory data showed marked lymphocytosis. A diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia was made by bone marrow biopsy. In the mean time, kidney biopsy showed crescentic glomerulonephritis and interstitial infiltration with leukemic cells. To our knowledge, there are only three previous reports of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis that occurred simultaneously with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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- Yao-Ko Wen
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, 135, Nanhsiao Street, Changhua, 500, Taiwan
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Retamozo S, Díaz-Lagares C, Bosch X, de Vita S, Ramos-Casals M. Life-Threatening Cryoglobulinemia. Autoimmune Dis 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-358-9_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis is a rare complication of malignancy that is frequently mistaken for idiopathic glomerulonephritis. Failure to recognize paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis can subject patients to ineffective and potentially harmful therapy. The pathology of paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis varies between different types of malignancies. This Review discusses the association of glomerulonephritis with both solid tumors and hematological malignancies. The pathogenetic mechanisms of many glomerular lesions seem to relate to altered immune responses in the presence of a malignancy. Studies in the Buffalo/Mna rat model of spontaneous thymoma and nephrotic syndrome indicate that polarization of the immune response toward a T-helper-2 (T(H)2) profile has an important role in the development of thymoma-associated glomerular lesions. Furthermore, overexpression of the T(H)2 cytokine interleukin 13 in rats induces minimal change disease. Such findings from experimental studies might facilitate the identification of biomarkers that can distinguish paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis from idiopathic and other secondary glomerulonephritides. This Review describes potential pathogenetic mechanisms for paraneoplastic glomerulonephritides associated with different malignancies and highlights the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the management of patients with paraneoplastic glomerulonephritis.
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Purhonen AK, Mikkola M, Karjalainen L, Helle M, Lumiaho A, Juutilainen A. Cryoglobulinaemia and rapidly deteriorating renal function in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010; 26:1101-3. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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