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We report a case of a 63-year-old woman with gamma heavy chain disease (HCD) associated with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the duodenum. She was suffering from drug-resistant tonsillitis with high fever. Examination on admission showed leukocytopenia and thrombocytopenia. Bone
A 36-year-old man was admitted to Saitama Medical School Hospital, because of a remittent fever which had continued for approximately 6 months, hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy. He had direct Coombs' test positive auto-immune hemolytic anemia associted with subacute bacterial endocarditis
Gamma heavy chain disease (gamma HCD) has been found in approximately 60 patients (Franklin 1978) since its discovery in 1964 (Franklin et al. 1964). Clinical features include fever and local or generalized lymphadenopathy which may wax and wane. Patients suffer from an undue susceptibility to
A 76-year-old Japanese man, presented with a case of gamma heavy chain disease associated with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. The clinical course progressed rapidly, accompanied by fever, lymphadenopathy, erythematous palate and hepatosplenomegaly. As the disease progressed, haemoglobin level
A case of gamma heavy chain disease is reported in a 52-year-old white male who presented with fever and generalized lymphadenopathy. A lymph node biopsy showed malignant lymphoma. A partial transient response was obtained with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, and doxorubicin. He died 3
The first case of gamma-heavy chain disease described in Spain is here reported. The patient, a 36-year-old woman, presented fever, enlarged regional lymph nodes, and hepatosplenomegaly, without bone marrow abnormalities but with lymphopenia. Serum electrophoresis did not disclose any M-component.
The authors present a case of concurrent hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis (HSP) and heavy-chain disease (HCD). The patient was a 71-year-old woman presenting with leg paralysis and fever. Laminectomy was performed for thoracic HSP, and chemotherapy was administered for HCD. Because the dura mater
Gamma heavy chain disease (γ-HCD) is a rare B-cell neoplasm that produces a truncated immunoglobulin γ-heavy chain lacking the light chain. The clinical features of γ-HCD are heterogeneous, resembling different types of B-cell lymphomas. Although rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the common