Research Article

Detection of Minimal Residual Disease by Flow Cytometry for Patients with Multiple Myeloma Submitted to Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Table 2

Results of patients at 3 months.

MRD (3 months)Status (preTCTH)Status
(end of study)
Immunoglobulin type

1VGPRDIgG
2CRCRIgG
3CRCRIgG
4VGPRDIgG
5CRCRKappa light chain
6PRDIgA
7+PRVGPRIgG
8PRVGPRIgA
9CRCRKappa light chain
10VGPRRLambda light chain
11+PRDIgG
12CRVGPRIgG
13CRCRIgG
14VGPRPRIgG
15+PRDIgA
16+PRRIgA
17CR*IgG
18+VGPRCRIgG
19+CRVGPRIgG
20+CRCRIgG
21+CRCRLambda light chain
22+VGPRVGPRIgG
23+PRVGPRIgG
25VGPRVGPRKappa light chain
28PRDIgG
30VGPRCRIgG
31CRCRIgG
32VGPRVGPRIgG
33CRVGPRIgG
35+PRRIgA
36PRVGPRKappa light chain
37PRDIgA
38+VGPRVGPRIgG
39+VGPRVGPRKappa light chain
40+VGPRVGPRIgA
41+PRDIgA
42+PRPRIgA
43VGPRVGPRIgG
44VGPRVGPRIgA
45VGPRVGPRIgG

(D) Died; (R) relapse; (PR) partial remission; (VGPR) very good PR; (CR) complete remission.
(+) FCM > 0,01% neoplastic PC immunophenotype.
(−) FCM ≤ 0,01% PC neoplastic immunophenotype.