Case Report
Multiple Autoimmune Propensity and B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Cause or Effect?
Table 1
Patient’s laboratory findings. Column A: on admission, column B: 6 weeks after initiation of prednizolone, column C: 1 month after the third cycle of chemotherapy (bortezomide, rituximab, and dexamethasone).
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WBC: white blood cells, NE: neutrophils, LY: lymphocytes, HCT: hematocrit, HGB: hemoglobulin, MCV: mean corpuscular volume, RBC: red blood cells, RET: reticulocytes, PLT: platelets, ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate, PT: prothrombin time, INR: international normalised ratio, aPTT: activated partial thromboplastin time, AST: aspartate transaminase, ALT: alanine transaminase, -GT: gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, ALP: alkaline phosphatase, CPK: creatine phosphokinase, LDH: lactate dehydrogenase, CRP: C-reactive protein, Lac test: lupus anticoagulant test The rests abbreviations are same as in text; Parentheses show the normal range; indirect immunofluorescence (IIF), on in-house rat multiorgan substrate panel that include-kidney, liver, and stomach tissue. Positive titer >1/20; M2-specific AMA by ELISA (Quanta Lite, INOVA Diagnostics, San Diego, Calif, USA); IgG-isotype AMA cut-off: 20 units; IgA-isotype AMA cut off: 217 optical density (OD). ELISAs (Quanta Lite, INOVA Diagnostics, San Diego, Calif, USA); cut-off of each ELISA: 20 units. |