Kidney diseases associated with monoclonal immunoglobulin M-secreting B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders: a case series of 35 patients.
Kidney diseases associated with immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal gammopathy are poorly described, with few data for patient outcomes and renal response.
Case series.
35 patients from 8 French departments of nephrology were retrospectively studied. Inclusion criteria were: (1) detectable serum monoclonal IgM, (2) estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 60mL/min/1.73m(2) and/or proteinuria with protein excretion > 0.5g/d and/or microscopic hematuria, and (3) kidney biopsy showing monoclonal immunoglobulin deposits and/or lymphomatous B-cell renal infiltration. All patients received chemotherapy, including rituximab-based regimens in 8 cases.
Patients were classified into 3 groups according to renal pathology: glomerular AL amyloidosis (group 1; n=11), nonamyloid glomerulopathies (group 2; n=15, including 9 patients with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis), and tubulointerstitial nephropathies (group 3; n=9, including cast nephropathy in 5, light-chain Fanconi syndrome in 3, and isolated tumor infiltration in 1).
Posttreatment hematologic response (≥50% reduction in serum monoclonal IgM and/or free light chain level) and renal response (≥50% reduction in 24-hour proteinuria or eGFR≥30mL/min/1.73m(2) in patients with glomerular and tubulointerstitial disorders, respectively).
Nephrotic syndrome was observed in 11 and 6 patients in groups 1 and 2, respectively. Patients in group 3 presented with acute kidney injury (n=7) and/or proximal tubular dysfunction (n=3). Waldenström macroglobulinemia was present in 26 patients (8, 12, and 6 in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively). Significant lymphomatous interstitial infiltration was observed in 18 patients (4, 9, and 5 patients, respectively). Only 9 of 29 evaluable patients had systemic signs of symptomatic hematologic disease (2, 5, and 2, respectively). In groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively, hematologic response was achieved after first-line treatment in 3 of 9, 9 of 10, and 5 of 6 evaluable patients, while renal response occurred in 5 of 10, 9 of 15, and 5 of 8 evaluable patients.
Retrospective study; insufficient population to establish the impact of chemotherapy.
IgM monoclonal gammopathy is associated with a wide spectrum of renal manifestations, with an under-recognized frequency of tubulointerstitial disorders.
Chauvet S
,Bridoux F
,Ecotière L
,Javaugue V
,Sirac C
,Arnulf B
,Thierry A
,Quellard N
,Milin S
,Bender S
,Goujon JM
,Jaccard A
,Fermand JP
,Touchard G
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Cast nephropathy and light-chain deposition disease in Waldenström macroglobulinemia.
Waldenström macroglobulinemia is a rare low-grade hematologic malignancy due to clonal proliferation of B lymphocytes responsible for immunoglobulin M (IgM) monoclonal gammopathy secreted in serum. This disease is characterized by lymphoplasmacytic tumoral infiltration of bone marrow and various organs, especially the liver and spleen. Kidney involvement in Waldenström macroglobulinemia has been described previously with reports of various forms of glomerular injury: large intracapillary IgM pseudothrombi, cryoglobulinemia-associated membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, or amyloidosis. Interstitial infiltration by tumoral B lymphocytes is another classic pattern. Conversely, tubular involvement in the form of myeloma-like casts or basement membrane deposition of monoclonal light chain (light-chain deposition disease) is unusual. We report the occurrence of cast nephropathy associated with light-chain deposition disease in 2 patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia, which resulted in severe and prolonged kidney failure.
Gnemmi V
,Leleu X
,Provot F
,Moulonguet F
,Buob D
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