Multiple Myeloma-Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy

Multiple myeloma (MM) typically presents with hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, anemia, and bone lesions. Elevated ammonia level manifesting as altered mental status is a rare complication in MM. We report an interesting case of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a 73-year-old male with advanced rel...

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Autores principales: Murtaza, Ghulam, Lu, Hannah, Faqah, Anadil, Konowitz, Nicholas, Kuruvilla, Aneesh, Adhikari, Sujeen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7155816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32300389
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jh322e
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author Murtaza, Ghulam
Lu, Hannah
Faqah, Anadil
Konowitz, Nicholas
Kuruvilla, Aneesh
Adhikari, Sujeen
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Lu, Hannah
Faqah, Anadil
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Kuruvilla, Aneesh
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description Multiple myeloma (MM) typically presents with hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, anemia, and bone lesions. Elevated ammonia level manifesting as altered mental status is a rare complication in MM. We report an interesting case of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a 73-year-old male with advanced relapsing kappa-light chain MM.
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spelling pubmed-71558162020-04-16 Multiple Myeloma-Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy Murtaza, Ghulam Lu, Hannah Faqah, Anadil Konowitz, Nicholas Kuruvilla, Aneesh Adhikari, Sujeen J Hematol Case Report Multiple myeloma (MM) typically presents with hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, anemia, and bone lesions. Elevated ammonia level manifesting as altered mental status is a rare complication in MM. We report an interesting case of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a 73-year-old male with advanced relapsing kappa-light chain MM. Elmer Press 2017-03 2017-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7155816/ /pubmed/32300389 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jh322e Text en Copyright 2017, Murtaza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Multiple Myeloma-Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7155816/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jh322e
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