- MGUS and Lyme disease - myelomabeacon. org
My name is Karen, I am 59 years old I was first diagnosed with MGUS in 1994 Actually told I had a polyclonal gammopathy because my IgG and IgM were both high Bone scan clear, 24-hour urine test clear, CBC looked good I did refuse the bone biopsy tho Told I prolly had 5 years, so made funeral arrangements and picked guardians for my kids
- Sed rate prior to MGUS or multiple myeloma diagnosis
I will find out on the 24th those results But I'm really curious what sort of sed rate is common prior to a diagnosis of either MGUS or multiple myeloma Has anyone else gone the arthritis route with a rheumatologist only to have it turn out to be myeloma?
- Possibility of MGUS at young age (26) - myelomabeacon. org
If your MGUS evolves into multiple myeloma and causes debilitating bone damage or other organ damage simply because you weren't on top of it, you would regret it But if you are getting tested for it every year or so, you could easily avoid that situation
- Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance
N Leung et al, "Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance: when MGUS is no longer undetermined or insignificant," Blood, Nov 2012 ( full text ) I was diagnosed with MGUS in 2007 at the Cleveland Clinic
- Do I have a high risk of progression to myeloma?
There are different models for risk of MGUS progression out there from the Mayo Clinic, PETHEMA, etc Some of the key risk factors that are used in the various models are the size of the M-spike (> 1 5 g dL), involved uninvolved free light chain (FLC) ratio (>8), genetics, immunoparesis, number of focal lesions, isotype (whether you are IgA or IgM-type MGUS versus IgG) , etc They Mayo model
- t (4;14) with MGUS asymptomatic myeloma
You can have genetic abnormalities such as t (4;14) with any stage of a monoclonal gammopathy (MGUS, smoldering multiple myeloma or symptomatic multiple myeloma)
- MGUS diagnosis, but will I progress to multiple myeloma?
Re: MGUS diagnosis, but will I progress to multiple myeloma? by Mojbahar on Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:14 pm Dear Trae,
- Do I have smoldering myeloma or MGUS?
Hello, Last Thursday I was diagnosed with smoldering myeloma I have 20 percent plasma cells in the bone marrow and an M-spike 0 19 g dL M-spike
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