Bone marrow transplantation in three patients with multiple myeloma

Three patients with multiple myeloma received bone marrow grafts from HLA-identical sibling donors. One of the patients, with IgA kappa myeloma, refractory to alkeran-prednisone therapy, is well and still without sign of disease 26 months post transplantation. A second patient with Bence-Jones kappa myeloma is well, and skeletal pain and Bence-Jones proteinuria has disappeared 2 months after transplantation. A third patient with IgG-lambda myeloma died of effusive pericarditis shortly after transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation may be indicated in a selective group of patients with multiple myeloma.