Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Crystalline Membranous Nephropathy. 2024

Salvatore E Mignano, and Virginie Pascal, and Nnaemezie E Odioemene, and William Forehand, and Vincent Javaugue, and Samar M Said, and Sanjeev Sethi, and Christophe Sirac, and Samih H Nasr
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Monoclonal immunoglobulin (MIg) crystalline nephropathies are rare lesions resulting from precipitation of MIgs in the kidney as intracellular or extracellular crystals. We describe a patient with multiple myeloma (IgGλ) and diabetes who presented with nephrotic range proteinuria. Kidney biopsy revealed membranous nephropathy superimposed on diabetic glomerulosclerosis. Glomeruli were negative for PLA2R, THSD7A, and NELL-1. Ultrastructurally, the subepithelial deposits were composed of crystals (ranging from rhomboid to rod to needle shaped), which failed to stain for immunoglobulins by routine immunofluorescence but stained for IgG+λ by paraffin immunofluorescence after pronase digestion. RNA-based immunoglobulin repertoire sequencing performed on bone marrow aspirate identified an IgGλ (γ1) clone, which was highly atypical, combining an extensively mutated (23.6%) Ig heavy chain derived from the IGHV1-24 with low pI and unusual mutations and a light chain derived from an extremely rare germline gene (IGLV10-54). This report expands the pathologic spectrum of MIg crystalline nephropathies by describing a unique case of crystalline nephropathy with IgGλ deposits manifesting as membranous nephropathy.

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