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Query: UMLS:C0026764 (multiple myeloma)
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In a 52-year-old man with general malaise, muscle stiffness and weakness, POEMS-syndrome was diagnosed based on polyneuropathy, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, subclinical hypothyroidism and the presence of a monoclonal paraprotein with osteosclerotic lesions and an indurated skin (POEMS is an acronym for Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal protein, Skin changes). This is a rare systemic disease from the clinical spectrum of plasma cell dyscrasias with polyneuropathy. The clinical picture is broader and more pleomorphic than the acronym suggests. The possibility of a POEMS syndrome should be considered in the differential diagnosis of polyneuropathy in association with monoclonal gammopathy. Quite often it is associated with osteosclerotic myeloma or mixed osteoscleroticlytic lesions. The patient described was treated with high dose corticosteroids which were gradually decreased over the next three months, upon which a marked improvement could be seen. The general malaise subsided, as did the splenomegaly, and the skin became supple again.
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PMID:[A man with plasma cell dyscrasia and polyneuropathy due to POEMS syndrome]. 1187 37

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is an immunologically mediated central nervous system disorder that is infrequently associated with malignancy. We report a 31-year-old woman who developed SPS after autologous bone marrow transplantation and subsequent interferon treatment for multiple myeloma. Anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (anti-GAD) antibody serology was positive. The myeloma remains in remission 10 years posttransplant. SPS has been described in association with lung cancer and breast cancer, thymoma, and Hodgkin lymphoma. This is the second report of SPS in a patient with myeloma and the first description of SPS following autologous transplantation. Aberrant immune reconstitution is known to occur following hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation. Interferon is also known to augment the immune response posttransplant. We speculate that an aberrant posttransplant immune response may have caused both the SPS and an autologous graft-versus-myeloma effect, resulting in prolonged remission posttransplant.
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PMID:Stiff-person syndrome associated with multiple myeloma following autologous bone marrow transplantation. 1893 4

Stiff skin syndrome (SSS) is a rare scleroderma-like syndrome characterised by stone hard skin, joint limitation and progressive restriction of chest that may lead to death. We describe the efficacy of haematopoietic autologous stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in a case of SSS secondary to a smouldering myeloma (SM), with severe joint disability, lung interstitial disease and oesophageal dysfunction. The patient was evaluated at 1, 12 and 18 months after HSCT, clinically (joint motility, HAQ and NYHA for dyspnoea) and instrumentally (DLCO, chest HRCT, oesophagus x-ray). After 18 months since HSCT, we observed a high improvement, contemporaneously to SM remission, of HAQ, joint motility, lung (at DLCO and HRCT) and oesophageal abnormalities.
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PMID:Stiff skin syndrome and myeloma successfully treated with autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). 2391 Jun 22