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Article: Multiple myeloma-associated amyloidosis manifesting as fulminant hepatic failure.
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- Southern Medical Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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ABSTRACT: We report a case of amyloidosis associated with k light chain multiple myeloma in a 42-year-old African American man. The patient initially had mild dyspepsia, which rapidly progressed to include anorexia, fulminant hepatic failure, and death within 9 weeks. This is only the fourth reported case of hepatic failure from myeloma-associated amyloidosis and the second reported case of light chain myeloma with amyloidosis resulting in a progressive clinical course of hepatic failure. Our patient was unique in that, despite severe disease, he had mild symptoms without laboratory abnormalities until 2 weeks prior to death.
MULTIPLE MYELOMA is a malignant ...