Vincent Javaugue, Céline Debiais-Delpech, Mathilde Nouvier, Elise Gand, Sophie Chauvet, Laure Ecotiere, Estelle Desport, Jean-Michel Goujon, Vincent Delwail, Stéphanie Guidez, Cécile Tomowiak, Xavier Leleu, Arnaud Jaccard, Nathalie Rioux-Leclerc, Cécile Vigneau, Jean-Paul Fermand, Guy Touchard, Antoine Thierry, Frank Bridoux
The clinicopathological characteristics of kidney infiltration in B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders remain poorly described. We retrospectively studied 52 adults with biopsy-proven malignant B-cell kidney infiltration, including Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (n=21), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (n=11), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) (n=8), other lymphoma (n=11), and multiple myeloma (n=1). Kidney disease varied according to the underlying lymphoproliferative disorder. In DLBCL, malignant kidney infiltration was prominent, resulting in acute kidney injury (AKI, 75%) and kidney enlargement (88%)...
July 2019: Kidney International