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Multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis in a renal transplant recipient
M Aparicio1, V de Precigout, J Reiffers
1Maladies Médicales des Reins, Transplantation Rénale, Université de Bordeaux II, France.
Nephron
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Seven years after a cadaver kidney transplantation a 33-year-old man presented with a monoclonal gammopathy secondarily complicated by AL amyloidosis mainly expressed as a sicca syndrome, gammopathy that ultimately developed into multiple myeloma. The mechanisms responsible for the occurrence of monoclonal gammopathy in renal transplant recipients are discussed.