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Haider SA, Iram S, Rashid AA, Manazar A, Javed H. POEMS (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal Plasma Cell Disorder, and Skin Changes) Syndrome as a Sequela of Castleman Disease: A Case Report. Cureus 2023; 15:e49330. [PMID: 38143657 PMCID: PMC10748833 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.49330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasma cell disorder, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome is a rare multisystemic paraneoplastic disorder caused by an underlying plasma cell dyscrasia. Its diagnosis is based on the presence of two mandatory criteria and at least one major and one minor criterion. We report a case of a 52-year-old female patient who presented with complaints of acrocyanosis, night sweats, scaly skin, and swelling on the left side of the neck. She was a known case of hypothyroidism, antiphospholipid syndrome, and cerebral venous thrombosis, and had other comorbidities as well. She also exhibited weakness and paresthesia of the limbs and muscle wasting in the hands. All necessary examinations and investigations were performed and the patient was eventually diagnosed with POEMS syndrome. She underwent chemotherapy along with immunotherapy initially, but as the disease relapsed, she was referred for high-dose therapy (HDT) and autologous stem cell transplantation.
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- Medicine, Lahore Medical and Dental College, Lahore, PAK
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- Medicine, University College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, PAK
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- Medicine, University College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, PAK
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Abdallah NH, Habermann T, Buadi FK, Gertz MA, Lacy MQ, Rajkumar SV, Dingli D, Go RS, Hayman SR, Kumar SK, Kourelis T, Warsame R, Kapoor P, Muchtar E, Hwa YL, Fonder AL, Hobbs MA, Lin Y, Leung N, Binder M, Siddiqui MA, Kyle RA, Witzig TE, Dispenzieri A. Multicentric Castleman disease: A single center experience of treatment with a focus on autologous stem cell transplantation. Am J Hematol 2022; 97:401-410. [PMID: 35015310 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.26466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2021] [Revised: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disease characterized by diverse clinical and pathologic features. Due to its rarity, there are limited studies comparing currently available therapies. The role of autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in CD has not yet been established. In this paper, we describe the clinical characteristics, treatment choices, and outcomes in 34 Mayo Clinic patients diagnosed with multicentric CD from July 1, 2003 to April 30, 2018. Eighteen patients (53%) also met the criteria for POEMS, including 14 with the osteosclerotic variant. The first-line treatments included: steroid monotherapy (4), cytotoxic chemotherapy (6), rituximab alone (8) or with chemotherapy (2), anti-IL6 treatment (3), and ASCT (10). The median follow-up was 4.8 (range: 0.1-15.2) years. The 5- and 10-year overall survival rates were 84% and 71%, respectively. Sixteen patients received high-dose chemotherapy followed by ASCT during their disease course. Among those, 14 had multicentric CD associated with POEMS. There were no transplant-related deaths. All patients had at least a partial response to ASCT, most of whom achieved a complete response. The favorable outcomes seen with ASCT in this cohort suggest that transplantation may have a role in multicentric CD, particularly for patients with multicentric CD associated with POEMS.
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
- Division of Nephrology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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- Division of Hematology Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA
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Although Castleman disease was first described in 1956, this disease includes various conditions, including unicentric Castleman disease with hyaline vascular histology, human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) related multicentric Castleman disease, idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease, and mimics of Castleman disease associated with other conditions. To date, Castleman disease remains incompletely understood due to its rareness and difficulties in clinical and pathological diagnosis. TAFRO syndrome was reported in Japan in 2010. Because lymph node histology is similar in patients with TAFRO syndrome and Castleman disease, TAFRO syndrome is described as a related disorder of Castleman disease. Clinically, however, these conditions differ markedly. Although elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6) expression is characteristic of Castleman disease, increased expression of IL-6 may occur in patients with other diseases, making elevated IL-6 unsuitable for differential diagnosis. Further understanding of these disorders requires the identification of novel disease-specific biomarkers. This review article therefore outlines the characteristics of Castleman disease and TAFRO syndrome.
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Koike H, Katsuno M. Paraproteinemia and neuropathy. Neurol Sci 2021; 42:4489-4501. [PMID: 34529193 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-021-05583-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Paraproteinemia is associated with different peripheral neuropathies. The major causes of neuropathy correlated with paraproteinemia are the deposition of immunoglobulin in the myelin, represented by anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) neuropathy; deposition of immunoglobulin or its fragment in the interstitium, represented by immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL amyloidosis); and paraneoplastic mechanisms that cannot be solely attributed to the deposition of immunoglobulin or its fragment, represented by polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin change (POEMS) syndrome. Patients with anti-MAG neuropathy and POEMS syndrome present with slowing of nerve conduction parameters. This characteristic fulfills the electrodiagnostic criteria for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) defined by the European Academy of Neurology and Peripheral Nerve Society (EAN/PNS). Although direct damage caused by the deposition of amyloid can induce axonal damage in AL amyloidosis, some patients with this condition have features fulfilling the EAN/PNS electrodiagnostic criteria for CIDP. Conventional immunotherapies for CIDP, such as steroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, and plasma exchange, offer no or only minimal-to-modest benefit. Although rituximab can reduce the level of circulating autoantibodies, it may only be effective in some patients with anti-MAG neuropathy. Drugs including melphalan, thalidomide, lenalidomide, and bortezomib for POEMS syndrome and those including melphalan, thalidomide, lenalidomide, pomalidomide, bortezomib, ixazomib, and daratumumab for AL amyloidosis are considered. Since there will be more therapeutic options in the future, thereby enabling appropriate treatments for individual neuropathies, there is an increasing need for early diagnosis.
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- Haruki Koike
- Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.
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- Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
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Koa B, Borja AJ, Aly M, Padmanabhan S, Tran J, Zhang V, Rojulpote C, Pierson SK, Tamakloe MA, Khor JS, Werner TJ, Fajgenbaum DC, Alavi A, Revheim ME. Emerging role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Castleman disease: a review. Insights Imaging 2021; 12:35. [PMID: 33709329 PMCID: PMC7952491 DOI: 10.1186/s13244-021-00963-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Castleman disease (CD) describes a group of rare hematologic conditions involving lymphadenopathy with characteristic histopathology and a spectrum of clinical abnormalities. CD is divided into localized or unicentric CD (UCD) and multicentric CD (MCD) by imaging. MCD is further divided based on etiological driver into human herpesvirus-8-associated MCD, POEMS-associated MCD, and idiopathic MCD. There is notable heterogeneity across MCD, but increased level of pro-inflammatory cytokines, particularly interleukin-6, is an established disease driver in a portion of patients. FDG-PET/CT can help determine UCD versus MCD, evaluate for neoplastic conditions that can mimic MCD clinico-pathologically, and monitor therapy responses. CD requires more robust characterization, earlier diagnosis, and an accurate tool for both monitoring and treatment response evaluation; FDG-PET/CT is particularly suited for this. Moving forward, future prospective studies should further characterize the use of FDG-PET/CT in CD and specifically explore the utility of global disease assessment and dual time point imaging. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02817997, Registered 29 June 2016, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02817997
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- Benjamin Koa
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Sognsvannsveien 20, 0372, Oslo, Norway. .,Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Problemveien 7, 0316, Oslo, Norway.
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