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).

Respiratory distress

Difficulty in breathing. The physical presentation of respiratory distress is generally referred to as labored breathing, while the sensation of respiratory distress is called shortness of breath or dyspnea.


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PMID (PMCID)
24340476
 MALE Adult
An unusual presentation of perforating metastatic calcinosis cutis.
Livingood M, Newman SA.
Skinmed. 2013;11(5):314-5.
A 37-year-old white man diagnosed with multiple myeloma was admitted for respiratory distress.
16648354
 FEMALE
Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to pulmonary involvement by neoplastic plasma cells in multiple myeloma.
Marmor DB, Farber JL, Gottlieb JE.
Thorax. 2006;61(5):455-6.
A patient who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was subsequently found to have multiple myeloma with involvement of lung parenchyma by neoplastic plasma cells.
16648354
 FEMALE
Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to pulmonary involvement by neoplastic plasma cells in multiple myeloma.
Marmor DB, Farber JL, Gottlieb JE.
Thorax. 2006;61(5):455-6.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome due to pulmonary involvement by neoplastic plasma cells in multiple myeloma.
8645747
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Reversible metastatic pulmonary calcification in a patient with multiple myeloma.
Weber CK, Friedrich JM, Merkle E, Prummer O, Hoffmeister A, Mattfeldt T, Frickhofen N.
Ann Hematol. 1996;72(5):329-32.
There are only a few reports on pulmonary calcification in patients with multiple myeloma; the condition was associated mostly with progressive disease, kidney failure, adult respiratory distress syndrome and bad prognosis.
2602666
 MIXED_SAMPLE Middle Aged
Acute respiratory distress syndrome with pulmonary calcification in two patients with B cell malignancies.
Poe RH, Kamath C, Bauer MA, Qazi R, Kallay MC, Woll JE.
Respiration. 1989;56(1-2):127-33.
Two patients, one with B cell lymphoma and hypercalcemia and the other with multiple myeloma and hypercalcemia developed acute progressive respiratory insufficiency characteristic of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
1179315
 MALE Middle Aged
Multiple nodular pulmonary amyloidosis. A case report and comparison with diffuse alveolar-septal pulmonary amyloidosis.
Lee SC, Johnson H.
Thorax. 1975;30(2):178-85.
Diffuse alveolar septal amyloidosis is usually associated with primary systemic amyloidosis or multiple myeloma and leads rapidly to respiratory distress.