dysgammaglobulinemia/edema

BACKGROUND Monoclonal gammopathy and edema are features encountered during several diseases, especially systemic capillary leak syndrome. The diagnoses of POEMS syndrome, edematous systemic scleroderma and a fortuitous association may be also discussed. We report the cases of two patients which did

Sixt-two series of radiographs were analyzed. Interstitial plasma cell pneumonia (IPCP) was divided into six radiographic stages. A schematic description of these stages is given. The correlation between this scheme and the actual radiographs is illustrated with a series of nine antero-posterior and

In 1971, the author reported an autopsy case of a 48-year-old Japanese man with polyneuropathy, skin hyperpigmentation, diabetes mellitus, and monoclonal gammopathy. Previously, a total of 2 cases of solitary myeloma accompanied by polyneuropathy and endocrinological disorders have been reported by

BACKGROUND Chordoid meningioma is a very rare subtype of meningioma with less than 90 cases reported in the literature. Meningiomas related with a pregnancy are also very rare. Herein, we present a pregnancy-associated case of a chordoid meningioma and briefly discuss possible

A case of a 53 years old woman with Crow-Fukase's syndrome, the first case diagnosed and described in Bulgaria, is presented. The patient presented with polyneuropathy (predominantly locomotor, better expressed in the legs and less expressed in the hands, with hyperproteinorachia), anasarca

A 71-year-old man who had a history of open chest surgery was admitted due to anasarca and bilateral pleural effusions. Although imaging modalities could not demonstrate any pericardial abnormalities, right-sided cardiac catheterization revealed 'dip and plateau' in diastolic pressure waveform. He

BACKGROUND Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SHCI) is a rare disease with poor prognosis, characterized by recurrent episodes of generalized edema and hypotension. METHODS Two patients a 41 and 34-year-old woman were admitted with a generalized edema and several episode of shock. One patient had

Clinical manifestations of 102 cases with the Crow- Fukase syndrome (the syndrome of polyneuropathy, anasarca, skin changes, endocrinopathy, dysglobulinemia, and organomegaly), with or without myeloma, were reviewed. Fifty-six cases with myeloma consisted of 31 with osteosclerotic, 17 with mixed