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Acute kidney injury is a crucial prognostic factor for multiple myeloma. The most common cause is light chain cast nephropathy. The primary pathology of light chain-induced acute kidney injury involves obstruction of distal tubules due to the interaction of free light chains (FLCs) with Tamm-Horsfall protein produced there. Based on this pathology, chemotherapy is used to suppress the production of FLCs. Recently, combined blood purification therapies to remove existing FLCs have been used. However, the extent to which FLCs are removed by blood purification therapy remains unclear. We investigated the dialysis removal rates under various conditions and found that hemodialysis achieved 16% removal, plasma exchange 75%, and online hemodiafiltration varied from 20% to 31%. Although online hemodiafiltration is less effective than plasma exchange, it is a viable option that does not require albumin infusions or lead to infections. Despite hematologic remission, renal recovery was limited by a high number of casts, severe interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy, and the delay in treatment initiation.
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JAMA Psychiatry
September 2025
Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Importance: Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), the most common subtype of FTD, is a leading form of early-onset dementia worldwide. Accurate and timely diagnosis of bvFTD is frequently delayed due to symptoms overlapping with common psychiatric disorders, and interest has increased in identifying biomarkers that may aid in differentiating bvFTD from psychiatric disorders.
Objective: To summarize and critically review studies examining whether neurofilament light chain (NfL) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or blood is a viable aid in the differential diagnosis of bvFTD vs psychiatric disorders.
JAMA Cardiol
September 2025
Seymour, Paul and Gloria Milstein Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
Importance: Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) is an underdiagnosed but treatable cause of heart failure (HF) in older individuals that occurs in the context of normal wild-type (ATTRwt-CA) or an abnormal inherited (ATTRv-CA) TTR gene variant. While the most common inherited TTR variant, V142I, occurs in 3% to 4% of self-identified Black Americans and is associated with excess morbidity and mortality, the prevalence of ATTR-CA in this at-risk population is unknown.
Objective: To define the prevalence of ATTR-CA and proportions attributable to ATTRwt-CA or ATTRv-CA among older Black and Caribbean Hispanic individuals with HF.
J Oncol Pharm Pract
September 2025
Hematology/Oncology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, USA.
IntroductionDaratumumab is a therapeutic cornerstone of the management of multiple myeloma, exerting its anti-myeloma activity through targeting of the cell surface glycoprotein CD38 on plasma cells. While originally given intravenously, the subcutaneous formulation, daratumumab hyaluronidase injection (Dara SC), has been associated with non-inferior efficacy and lower infusion-related reaction rates (IRRs) in the treatment of multiple myeloma and light chain amyloidosis. A noted benefit of Dara SC is a short administration time; however, the optimal observation time post injection to ensure patient safety is unclear from the drug labeling.
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September 2025
Centre for Research Impact & Outcome, Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, 140401, India.
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September 2025
Department of Pathology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Amyloidosis encompasses a spectrum of rare disorders characterized by extracellular amyloid deposition. Achieving an accurate early diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis necessitates biopsy-specific pathological evaluation. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded liver biopsy specimens were examined using Congo red staining, electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry (IHC), immunofluorescence, and Congo red-assisted laser microdissection with mass spectrometry (LMD/MS).
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