Multiple myeloma

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant tumor of plasma cell characterized by overproduction of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow and skeletal destruction. The clinical features are bone pain, renal impairment, immunodeficiency, anemia and presence of abnormal immunoglobulins (Ig).

Recurrent fever

Periodic (episodic or recurrent) bouts of fever.


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PMID (PMCID)
18810556
MALE Middle Aged
Elevated granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, non-infectious leukocytosis and fevers in a patient with multiple myeloma.
Sebasky MM, Gupta P, Filice GA.
J Gen Intern Med. 2008;23(12):2134-5.
We report the case of a 56-year-old male with multiple myeloma in whom recurrent fevers and leukocytosis delayed potentially effective chemotherapy due to concern for active infection.
11234288
MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
[Illness after travel not always due to exotic disease].
Verburg GP.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2001;145(7):289-92.
This was the case in 5 patients: a woman aged 44 years who suffered for months from bloody diarrhoea since her return from Brasil, due to a rectal adenocarcinoma, a 61-year-old man with diarrhoea upon returning from Egypt, who had hairy-cell leukaemia, a 17-year-old boy who developed a ketoacidotic diabetic crisis whilst on a journey in Uganda, but in whose case the first thoughts went to malaria, a 50-year-old man who suffered from throat pain since a journey through East Africa, during which he contracted a flu-like disease, and in whom Kahler's disease was diagnosed, and 69-year-old man suffering from recurrent fever and cough, in whom a radiological lesion was observed in the thorax which proved to be part of Wegener's disease.
9883003
MALE
Fever as presenting symptom of multiple myeloma.
Pitz CC, Lokhorst HM, Hoekstra JB.
Neth J Med. 1998;53(6):256-9.
Recurrent fever in this case should be considered as a symptom of active multiple myeloma.
9883003
MALE
Fever as presenting symptom of multiple myeloma.
Pitz CC, Lokhorst HM, Hoekstra JB.
Neth J Med. 1998;53(6):256-9.
We describe a 68-year-old patient presenting with recurrent fever, who eventually turned out to suffer from multiple myeloma.