An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma

Multiple myeloma commonly presents with bone pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcemia, anemia, and acute kidney injury. Altered mental status due to multiple myeloma is generally attributed to uremia, hypercalcemia, and hyperviscosity. In this report, we present a rare case of altered mental stat...

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Autores principales: Al Zeyoudi, Jawaher, Al Naqbi, Aisha, Kashiwagi, Deanne, Siddiqui, Mustaqeem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35103181
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20605
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author Al Zeyoudi, Jawaher
Al Naqbi, Aisha
Kashiwagi, Deanne
Siddiqui, Mustaqeem
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description Multiple myeloma commonly presents with bone pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcemia, anemia, and acute kidney injury. Altered mental status due to multiple myeloma is generally attributed to uremia, hypercalcemia, and hyperviscosity. In this report, we present a rare case of altered mental status due to high serum ammonia levels in a patient with advanced multiple myeloma and with no liver dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-87816502022-01-30 An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma Al Zeyoudi, Jawaher Al Naqbi, Aisha Kashiwagi, Deanne Siddiqui, Mustaqeem Cureus Oncology Multiple myeloma commonly presents with bone pain, pathological fractures, hypercalcemia, anemia, and acute kidney injury. Altered mental status due to multiple myeloma is generally attributed to uremia, hypercalcemia, and hyperviscosity. In this report, we present a rare case of altered mental status due to high serum ammonia levels in a patient with advanced multiple myeloma and with no liver dysfunction. Cureus 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8781650/ /pubmed/35103181 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20605 Text en Copyright © 2021, Al Zeyoudi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Al Zeyoudi, Jawaher
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An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title_full An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title_fullStr An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title_full_unstemmed An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title_short An Uncommon Cause of Acute Encephalopathy in Multiple Myeloma
title_sort uncommon cause of acute encephalopathy in multiple myeloma
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8781650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35103181
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20605
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