Vasculitic neuropathy in a patient with cryoglobulinemia and anti-MAG IGM monoclonal gammopathy. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A patient with sensorimotor mononeuritis multiplex had a type II cryoglobulin with an IgM kappa M-protein that appeared to contain monoclonal anti-MAG antibodies of the same isotype. A sural nerve biopsy demonstrated necrotizing arteritis and features of both axonal degeneration and demyelination. IgM kappa and C3 deposits were present on the myelin sheath of some residual nerve fibers. The findings suggest that the anti-MAG antibodies contributed to the myelin damage, while cryoprecipitates may have caused the vasculitis and axonal degeneration.

publication date

  • August 1, 1992

Research

keywords

  • Cryoglobulinemia
  • Hypergammaglobulinemia
  • Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains
  • Myelin Proteins
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
  • Vasculitis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026773899

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/mus.880150805

PubMed ID

  • 1379693

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 15

issue

  • 8