Transient Plasmacytosis With Trisomy of Chromosome 8 in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma: A Case Report. 2013

Nobuhiro Akuzawa, and Takashi Hatori, and Kunihiko Imai, and Yonosuke Kitahara, and Shinji Sakurai, and Masahiko Kurabayashi
Department of Internal Medicine, Social Insurance Gunma Chuo General Hospital, 1-7-13 Koun-cho, Maebashi, Gunma 371-0025, Japan.

A 96-year-old woman with a 5-year history of multiple myeloma was admitted to our hospital because of increasing fatigue and fever. Bone marrow plasma cell analysis showed t(11;14), del(13q), and del(17p13). Her condition deteriorated, and she developed plasmacytosis resembling plasma cell leukemia. Chromosome analysis showed trisomy of chromosome 8 in the circulating plasma cells. The plasmacytosis resolved spontaneously without chemotherapy after about 5 weeks, and the trisomy became undetectable. The findings suggest that trisomy 8 might have contributed to the transient plasmacytosis, and that chromosome 8 carries genes associated with plasma cell proliferation, maturation, and apoptosis.

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