ALLMedicine Hyperviscosity Syndrome Center

Apr 7th, 2020 - Plasma viscosity is an important biomarker both in diagnostics and treatment monitoring of plasma cell dyscrasias and other disorders with hyperviscosity syndrome as a clinical manifestation. Here, we investigate the performance of a new microflui...

Mar 5th, 2020 - We report the case of a 63-year-old Caucasian woman with multiple relapsed IgM multiple myeloma (MM) and elevated free kappa light chains (fκLC). Due to hyperviscosity syndrome with visual impairment, regular plasma exchanges were performed. As pa...

Jan 20th, 2020 - Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM) is a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma that presents with symptomatic anemia, thrombocytopenia, constitutional symptoms, extramedullary disease and rarely hyperviscosity syndrome. The presence of both IgM monoclonal pro...

Dec 10th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) refers to the clinical sequelae of increased blood viscosity. Increased serum viscosity usually results from increased circulating serum immunoglobulins and can be seen in such diseases as Waldenst...

Dec 10th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) refers to the clinical sequelae of increased blood viscosity. Increased serum viscosity usually results from increased circulating serum immunoglobulins and can be seen in such diseases as Waldenst...

Apr 7th, 2020 - Plasma viscosity is an important biomarker both in diagnostics and treatment monitoring of plasma cell dyscrasias and other disorders with hyperviscosity syndrome as a clinical manifestation. Here, we investigate the performance of a new microflui...

Mar 5th, 2020 - We report the case of a 63-year-old Caucasian woman with multiple relapsed IgM multiple myeloma (MM) and elevated free kappa light chains (fκLC). Due to hyperviscosity syndrome with visual impairment, regular plasma exchanges were performed. As pa...

Jan 20th, 2020 - Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM) is a lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma that presents with symptomatic anemia, thrombocytopenia, constitutional symptoms, extramedullary disease and rarely hyperviscosity syndrome. The presence of both IgM monoclonal pro...

Dec 10th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) refers to the clinical sequelae of increased blood viscosity. Increased serum viscosity usually results from increased circulating serum immunoglobulins and can be seen in such diseases as Waldenst...

Dec 10th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) refers to the clinical sequelae of increased blood viscosity. Increased serum viscosity usually results from increased circulating serum immunoglobulins and can be seen in such diseases as Waldenst...

Apr 6th, 2018 - Similarly increased odds of no treatment were reported for patients with comorbidities and poor performance status indicators. “In a subset of older and frail patients, the risks of treatments approved for [multiple myeloma] might outweigh the ben.

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Oncologic emergencies may be seen in any emergency department and will become more frequent as our population ages and more patients receive chemotherapy. Life-saving interventions are available for certain oncol...