Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 40-2006. A 64-year-old man with anemia and a low level of HDL cholesterol

N Engl J Med. 2006 Dec 28;355(26):2772-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc069031.

Authors

Mandakolathur R Murali¹, Alexander Kratz, Karin E Finberg

Affiliation

¹ Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

PMID: 17192544
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc069031

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Anemia / etiology*
B-Lymphocytes / immunology*
Blood Cell Count
Bone Marrow Cells / immunology
Bone Marrow Cells / pathology*
Cholesterol, HDL / blood*
Diagnosis, Differential
Dyslipidemias / etiology
Humans
Immunoglobulin M / blood
Immunoglobulin M / chemistry
Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains / isolation & purification
Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / isolation & purification
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / complications
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Paraproteinemias / diagnosis
Paraproteins / analysis
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / complications
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / pathology*

Substances

Cholesterol, HDL
Immunoglobulin M
Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains
Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains
Paraproteins