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Renal disease is a common and serious complication of plasma cell dyscrasias (PCD). In most clinical nephrology centers, a significant number of patients 50 years old or older presenting with proteinuria and/or renal insufficiency are diagnosed every year by serum and urine protein studies and by bone marrow biopsy as having developed kidney disease related to PCD. However, in some cases these laboratory studies are not revealing or are not done and such a diagnosis is made first by renal biopsy. Further, only by renal biopsy will it be possible to determine with certainty which of the several different patterns of renal involvement associated with PCD is present in an individual patient. There are six major morphologic patterns (Table 1) which have now been clearly characterized and differentiated and rarely occur in combination. These patterns have different pathogenetic mechanisms, different prognosis and different responses to therapy [1–9].
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Pirani, C.L. (1988). Histological, histochemical and ultrastructural features of myeloma kidney. In: Minetti, L., D’Amico, G., Ponticelli, C. (eds) The Kidney in Plasma Cell Dyscrasias. Developments in Nephrology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1315-8_15
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