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Query: UMLS:C0026764 (multiple myeloma)
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We present a patient with clinically asymptomatic amyloidosis associated with Crohn's ileitis. A distinction should be made between immunocytic dyscrasia associated with amyloidosis (formerly primary or myeloma-associated amyloidosis) and acquired systemic amyloidosis (formerly secondary amyloidosis). We compare the natural course of amyloidosis complicating Crohn's disease with these complicating familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), and discuss the role of resection and the rationale behind colchicine therapy. Our patient is the first reported case in which colchicine therapy alone has been successful in the prophylactic treatment of amyloidosis complicating Crohn's ileitis.
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PMID:Crohn's ileitis complicated by amyloidosis: observations and therapeutic considerations. 286 72

Pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (SP1) was assayed by particle-counting immunoassay (PACIA) with a sensitivity of 1 microgram/L. In serum from 50 men, the SP1 concentration was less than 1 microgram/L, whereas three of the specimens from 46 nonpregnant women had values exceeding 1 microgram/L. In 29% of 950 consecutive patients' sera, SP1 concentrations exceeded 1 microgram/L--in sarcoma (six of six), in malignant hemopathies (101/127, 80%) such as myeloma (20/26, 92%) and acute myeloblastic leukemia (23/27, 90%), and in various other types of cancer (11/19, 58%) except for bronchial epithelioma, which did not lead to any significant increase of SP1 in the five patients examined. The concentration of SP1 was also frequently increased in patients with Crohn's ileitis (28/43, 65%) but not in patients with other inflammatory disorders.
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PMID:Particle-counting immunoassay (PACIA) of pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein, a possible marker of various malignancies and Crohn's ileitis. 387 71