Screening and Differential Diagnosis of Renal Light Chain-Associated Diseases | Zendy

Jens Gerth | Zendy; Anja Sachse | Zendy; Martin Busch | Zendy; N. Illner | Zendy; Lars-Olof Muegge | Zendy; Hermann-Josef Gröne | Zendy; Günter Wolf | Zendy

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Screening and Differential Diagnosis of Renal Light Chain-Associated Diseases

Author(s) -

Jens Gerth,

Anja Sachse,

Martin Busch,

N. Illner,

Lars-Olof Muegge,

Hermann-Josef Gröne,

Günter Wolf

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

kidney and blood pressure research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.806

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1423-0143

pISSN - 1420-4096

DOI - 10.1159/000330715

Subject(s) - proteinuria , medicine , immunoglobulin light chain , renal function , renal biopsy , urology , multiple myeloma , creatinine , differential diagnosis , nephropathy , kidney , gastroenterology , pathology , endocrinology , immunology , antibody , diabetes mellitus

Renal involvement in the light chain-associated diseases multiple myeloma (MM), amyloidosis (AL) and monoclonal immune position disease (MIDD) is common and differential diagnosis usually requires renal biopsy. The aim of this study was to investigate if noninvasive methods are viable to identify and differentiate between the various types of kidney diseases.

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