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Filter by:Pruritus is most often secondary to dermatitis but can also occur without skin lesions, it is called pruritus sine materia. The causes of pruritus sine materia are various: haematological (myeloproliferative neoplasia ...), hepatic (cholestasis ...), renal (chronic renal failure, dialysis), endocrine (iron deficiency ...), secondary to drug intake ... or idiopathic when no cause is found. Gammapathies are among the causes of pruritus sine materia, and as such electrophoresis of serum proteins is usually part of the pruritus assessment to look for monoclonal gammopathy (MGUS, multiple myeloma, Waldenström disease). However, there is very little data on the frequency of pruritus in patients with monoclonal gammopathy and the characteristics of this pruritus. So the aim of this study is to compare the frequency of pruritus between patients with monoclonal gammapathy and controls
This protocol seeks to enroll smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significant (MGUS) patients with λ light chain (LC) involvement, a group of patients for whom standard of care is observation not treatment. Patients with SMM and MGUS have a precursor plasma cell disorder from which light chain amyloidosis (AL) can evolve. In this trial, enrolled subjects will have blood and if available bone marrow cells evaluated by molecular testing to determine their clonal λ LC variable region (VL) germline gene. Seventy percent of AL cases involve just 7 germline donors, 5 of which are λ germline donors. The hypothesis that will be tested with this protocol is that the presence of AL germline genes associated with AL in patients with a pre-existing diagnosis of λ SMM or λ MGUS indicates the presence of AL or risk of progression to AL.
Blood circulating endothelial cells (CEC) and microparticles (MPs) are described in the literature to be associated with vascular failures and dysfunction that reflect neo-angiogenesis and risk of thrombosis, respectively. There a few number of CEC in healthy patients although they significantly increase in several cancers including myeloma. However, no study explored to date a correlation of CEC and/or circulating endothelial progenitors (CEP) and MPs with the tumoral growth of monoclonal gammopathy. On the other hand, there is no study measuring the CEC and CEP directly in the bone marrow. The investigators aim is to evaluate these 2 original features in patients with monoclonal gammopathy: monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined signification (MGUS) and myeloma. This is a preliminary multicentric study.