Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma

Various factors can cause pleural effusion in multiple myeloma patients. Myelomatous pleural effusion (MPE) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of multiple myeloma with a poor prognosis. After ruling out all other probable causes, the present case reports MPE in a patient wi...

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Autores principales: Amjad, Mohammad Asim, Hamid, Zamara, Ramakrishna, Srinivasarao, Frank, Renee, Ochieng, Pius
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859966
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26045
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author Amjad, Mohammad Asim
Hamid, Zamara
Ramakrishna, Srinivasarao
Frank, Renee
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description Various factors can cause pleural effusion in multiple myeloma patients. Myelomatous pleural effusion (MPE) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of multiple myeloma with a poor prognosis. After ruling out all other probable causes, the present case reports MPE in a patient with IgG kappa multiple myeloma.
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spelling pubmed-92888442022-07-19 Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma Amjad, Mohammad Asim Hamid, Zamara Ramakrishna, Srinivasarao Frank, Renee Ochieng, Pius Cureus Internal Medicine Various factors can cause pleural effusion in multiple myeloma patients. Myelomatous pleural effusion (MPE) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening complication of multiple myeloma with a poor prognosis. After ruling out all other probable causes, the present case reports MPE in a patient with IgG kappa multiple myeloma. Cureus 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9288844/ /pubmed/35859966 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26045 Text en Copyright © 2022, Amjad 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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Amjad, Mohammad Asim
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Ramakrishna, Srinivasarao
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Ochieng, Pius
Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title_full Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title_fullStr Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title_full_unstemmed Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title_short Myelomatous Pleural Effusion: A Rare Occurrence in Multiple Myeloma
title_sort myelomatous pleural effusion: a rare occurrence in multiple myeloma
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859966
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26045
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