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A rare cause of lower GI bleeding
Mohammad Waleed1, A Mohamed Ali, Othman Saraj
1Department of Gastroenterology, Scarborough General Hospital, North Yorkshire, UK. waleed1280@yahoo.com
BMJ Case Reports
|September 11, 2012
Abstract:
The authors present a rare case of lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleed due to GI amyloidosis secondary to multiple myeloma. A 79-year-old lady who presented with bloody diarrhoea for 4 weeks. Flexible sigmoidoscopy showed slight oedematous mucosa extending up to the sigmoid colon. CT abdomen showed lytic lesions in the vertebral bodies. 24 h protein analysis and serum electrophoresis suggestive of multiple myeloma, which was confirmed with bone marrow biopsy, revealed plasma cell myeloma.