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SUBMITTER: Sidana S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992020 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sidana Surbhi S Tandon Nidhi N Dispenzieri Angela A Gertz Morie A MA Dingli David D Jevremovic Dragan D Morice William G WG Kapoor Prashant P Kourelis Taxiarchis V TV Lacy Martha Q MQ Hayman Suzanne R SR Buadi Francis K FK Leung Nelson N Go Ronald S RS Lin Yi Y Russell Stephen J SJ Lust John A JA Zeldenrust Steven R SR Warsame Rahma R Hwa Yi L YL Hobbs Miriam M Fonder Amie A Kyle Robert A RA Rajkumar S Vincent SV Kumar Shaji K SK Gonsalves Wilson I WI
Leukemia 20180221 6
We evaluated the prognostic impact of clonal circulating plasma cells (cPCs) detected by six-color multi-parametric flow cytometry (MFC) in light chain (AL) amyloidosis at diagnosis. Of the 154 patients who underwent MFC, cPCs were detected in 42% (n = 65) patients. Median number of cPCs was 81 per 150,000 events (range: 6-17,844). High bone marrow plasma cell percentage was an independent predictor of presence of cPCs. Presence of cPCs at diagnosis was associated with inferior overall survival ...[more]