The relation of clinical and laboratory findings to the survival of patients with macroglobulinaemia
Carter, P.; Koval, J.J.; Hobbs, J.R.
Clinical and Experimental Immunology 28(2): 241-249
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-9104 PMID: 406110 Document Number: 119561
The relation of clinical and laboratory findings at the time of clinical presentation to subsequent survival was investigated in 204 patients with macroglobulinemia. Ten following clinical and laboratory parameters were of prognostic significance and a further 12 were not. The best prognoses were found among male patients, patients aged 50-69 yr and those with serum IgM paraprotein concentrations of 20-39 g/l, type .lambda. paraproteins, no Bence-Jones proteinuria or cryoglobulinemia, only 1 paraprotein, serum cold hemagglutinin activity, serum albumin above 40 g/l and serum urea below 10 mmol/l.