Classic lattice corneal dystrophy associated with monoclonal gammopathy following exclusion of a TGFBI mutation by Mohd. Kamal, Khairidzan, Rayner, Sylvia A., Chen, Michael C., Aldave, Anthony J.

“…Purpose To report the association of phenotypic features characteristic of lattice corneal dystrophy with a monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance following exclusion of a coding region mutation in TGFBI. …”
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Monoclonal gammopathy associated with visceral leishmaniasis by Vishal Sharma, Mukul P Agarwal, Subhash Giri

“…It should be distinguished from monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) which can rarely turn malignant. …”
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Nodular pulmonary deposition disease in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a case report by Jessica N. Mezzanotte, I-Sanna Gibbons-Fideler, Konstantin Shilo, Mark Lustberg, Srinivas Devarakonda

“…We report a rare case of nodular pulmonary light chain deposition disease in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. Case presentation A 53-year-old African American woman with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome had pulmonary nodules detected incidentally by imaging of her lungs. …”
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Concomitant transformation to multiple myeloma and acute biphenotypic leukemia from MGUS simultaneously diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia 37-years before. by Pasquale Niscola

“…The association of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) with essential thrombocytopenia (ET) in the same patient is quite rare. …”
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Monoclonal gammopathy of “ocular” significance by Sezen Karakus, John D. Gottsch, Patrizio Caturegli, Allen O. Eghrari

“…Purpose: Diagnostic criteria for monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) do not currently include ocular phenotypic changes. …”
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Informative value of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging with diffusion-weighted images for the detection of bone marrow infiltration in patients with multiple myeloma (literatur... by N. S. Lutsik, L. P. Mendeleeva, G. A. Yatsik

“…In patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and smoldering myeloma, in some cases, pathological changes in the bone marrow can be detected by MRI. …”
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Clinicopathological significance and potential drug target of p15INK4B in multiple myeloma by Li J, Bi L, Lin Y, Lu Z, Hou G

“…Keywords: multiple myeloma, asymptomatic monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), p15, methylation, meta-analysis…”
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Multiple myeloma predominantly involving the spleen by V V Ryzhko, A A Klodzinskiĭ, A E Grachev, E Iu Varlamova, M S Sataeva, I M Nakastoev

“…The paper describes a 52-year-old female patient with MM who in 1990 was diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance with IgGκ secretion and a considerably enlarged spleen. …”
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Rare Case of C3 Glomerulopathy in a Patient of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Suraj Godara, Karan Kumar Saraf

“…It is associated with nonrenal diseases such as diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1, ocular drusen, acquired partial lipodystrophy, and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. We describe a case of 13-year-old boy of the known case of type 1 DM, who developed proteinuria, and swelling over his face, and lower limbs, which on renal biopsy, was diagnosed as a case of C3G.…”
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Monoclonal gammopathy associated with visceral leishmaniasis by Vishal Sharma, MD, Mukul P. Agarwal, MD, Subhash Giri, MD

“…It should be distinguished from monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) which can rarely turn malignant. …”
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The Danish National Multiple Myeloma Registry by Gimsing P, Holmström MO, Klausen TW, Andersen NF, Gregersen H, Pedersen RS, Plesner T, Pedersen PT, Frederiksen M, Frølund U, Helleberg C, Vangsted A, de Nully Brown P, Abildgaard N

“…Amyloid light-chain amyloidosis, POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes syndrome), monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance with polyneuropathy have been registered since 2014.Main variables: The main registered variables at diagnosis are patient demographics, baseline disease characteristics, myeloma-defining events, clinical complications, prognostics, first- and second-line treatments, treatment responses, progression free, and overall survival.Descriptive data: Up to June 2015, 2,907 newly diagnosed patients with MM, 485 patients with smoldering MM, 64 patients with plasma cell leukemia, and 191 patients with solitary plasmacytomas were registered. …”
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Severe CIDP-MGUS responsive to Rituximab by Andreas Posa, Alexander Emmer, Malte Kornhuber

“…CIDP-MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance) is a seldom CIDP variant that has been rarely addressed in therapeutic studies. …”
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Plasma cell neoplasm manifesting initially as a sub-cutaneous supra-orbital swelling by Riddhi Jaiswal, Garima Agarwal, Sudhir Singh

“…However, around 1% of these monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance progress to multiple myeloma every year and then they need to be taken care of by chemotherapy, targeted therapy, bisphosphonates and 6 monthly urine and bone examinations. …”
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A rare case of granuloma faciale presenting with ulceration: A case report by Farhan Mahmood, Iris YH Teo, Steven J Glassman

“…We present a case of an 83-year-old male with recurrent granuloma faciale with spontaneous ulceration and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. Intralesional triamcinolone, 10 mg/mL monthly for 5 months, with pimecrolimus cream twice daily resolved the ulceration and the lesion continues to flatten and lighten. …”
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Immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis diagnosis and treatment algorithm 2021 by M. Hasib Sidiqi, Morie A. Gertz

“…More importantly, patients being monitored for smoldering multiple myeloma and a monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are at risk for developing AL amyloidosis. …”
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Clinical and neurophysiological studies of chronic demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with monoclonal secretion by M. A. Ginsberg, E. Y. Varlamova, V. V. Ryzhko, N. А. Suponeva, M. A. Piradov

“…We examined 30 patients with PNP against a background of monoclonal gammopathy (16 with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and 14 with hemoblastosis) and 30 patients with CIDP. …”
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Massive Hepatomegaly Secondary to Amyloidosis with Normal Liver Chemistries by Sarah Doe-Williams, Lee J. Hixson, David C. Pfeiffer

“…Although rare, AL amyloidosis should be in a differential diagnosis of any patient who presents with unexplained hepatomegaly, nephrotic-range proteinuria, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, fatigue, weight loss or a history of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.…”
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Sweet syndrome following Moderna COVID-19 vaccine: A case report by Frederic Pelchat, Cynthia Fournier, Emilie Perron, Martin Gilbert, Bernard Delisle

“…We report here the case of a male adult with a history of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance who presented with an extensive cutaneous eruption of indurated erythematous papules and plaques 2 days after receiving his first dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine). …”
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Smoldering multiple myeloma current treatment algorithms by S. Vincent Rajkumar, Shaji Kumar, Sagar Lonial, Maria Victoria Mateos

“…Abstract Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is an asymptomatic condition that occupies a space between monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and multiple myeloma (MM) along the spectrum of clonal plasma cell proliferative disorders. …”
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Case Report: IgG multiple myeloma and chronic myeloid leukemia in a single patient [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Neeraja Swaminathan, Sorab Gupta, Claudia Dourado

“…He was restarted on imatinib and was also noted to have IgG kappa monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). The patient re-achieved molecular remission after resumption of imatinib, but his MGUS progressed to smoldering myeloma and he was eventually diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM) and initiated on treatment for MM with thalidomide, bortezomib and dexamethasone. …”
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