MONOCLONAL IMMUGNOLOBULIN DEPOSITION DISEASE

Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposition Disease, or MIDD, is a sickness portrayed  by the testimony of monoclonal immunoglobulins on the storm cellar layer of the  kidney. Monoclonal immunoglobulins are created by monoclonal plasma cells,  which are tracked down in an assortment of plasma cell dyscrasias. The affidavit of  monoclonal immunoglobulins on the storm cellar layer of the kidney causes renal  debilitation. As well as the kidney, MIDD may likewise influence the liver, heart,  fringe nerves, lung and skin. 

The reports of the clinicopathologic discoveries and result in 34 patients with renal  monoclonal immunoglobulin statement illness (MIDD), 

which included 23 light-chain DD (LCDD), 5 light-and weighty chain DD  (LHCDD), and 6 weighty chain DD (HCDD). A sum of 23 patients had  unadulterated MIDD, 

though 11 patients had LCDD with concurrent myeloma projected  nephropathy (LCDD and MCN). 

Renal biopsy finding went before clinical proof of dysproteinemia in 68% of all  cases. By immunofluorescence, the arrangement of stores included  11kappa/1lambda (LCDD), 3IgGkappa/2IgGlambda (LHCDD), 5 gamma/1 alpha  (HCDD), and i10 kappa/1 lambda (LCDD and MCN). 

Patients with unadulterated MIDD gave mean serum creatinine of 4.2 mg/dl, nephrotic proteinuria, and hypertension. Instances of HCDD were related  with a CH1 erasure and regularly had hypocomplementemia and a positive  hepatitis C infection immunizer, however regrettable hepatitis C infection  PCR. LCDD and MCN is a morphologically and clinically unmistakable  substance from unadulterated MIDD, 

giving higher creatinine (mean, 7.8 mg/dl; P = 0.01), more noteworthy dialysis  reliance (64 versus 26%; P = 0.053), sub nephrotic proteinuria, and less  nodular glomerulopathy (18 versus 100 percent; P < 0.0001). Different  myeloma was more every now and again analyzed in LCDD and MCN than in  unadulterated MIDD (91 versus 31%; P = 0.025). 

History –  

MIDD was first depicted in clinical writing by Kobernick et al. in 1957. 

They depicted it as “a non-amyloid kidney illness looking like diabetic  glomerulosclerosis in non-diabetic myeloma patients.” 

LCDD was additionally depicted by Randall et al. in 1976 which is the reason  it is in some cases alluded to as Randall-type MIDD. 

Preud’homme et al. portrayed LHCDD in 1980. 

Tubbs et al. portrayed HCDD in 1992, which was gathered under the name  of MIDD, 

And also, first recommended by Buxbaum et al. in 1990.’

Side effects and signs – 

While introducing to essential consideration doctors, patients with MIDD regularly  have renal inadequacy, proteinuria and these side effects are frequently joined by  nephrotic conditions, however patients may likewise give intense renal  disappointment. 83% of MIDD patients have renal deficiency and keeping in mind  that practically all patients will have proteinuria, 40-half will have proteinuria in the  nephrotic range. A few patients may likewise have haematuria and hypertension  however this isn’t tracked down in all patients. 

Strategies regularly used to help the conclusion of MIDD incorporate serum  protein electrophoresis, pee protein electrophoresis, serum or pee  immunofixation, estimation of serum free light chains and renal biopsy. 

Immunofluorescence is then utilized on the biopsied test to identify the  protein stores on the cellar film.  

Progressively, mass spectroscopy of the protein stores might be utilized close  by or rather than immunohistochemical staining.  

This might be especially valuable in MIDD patients who have an amyloid fibril  problem as well as MIDD, as MIDD stores don’t display Congo Red staining  while amyloid fibrils do.  

If the two kinds of sickness exist together, the staining might be confused,  while mass spectrometry results will be all the clearer. Electron microscopy  may likewise be utilized. 

Its Subtypes are – 

There are three subtypes of MIDD, light chain statement infection where  Immunoglobulin light chains are stored on the storm cellar layer, light and weighty  chain affidavit illness, where both weighty and light chains of immunoglobulins are  saved, and weighty chain testimony sickness, where just immunoglobulin weighty  chains are kept 

  1. Light Chain Deposition Disease – Light Chain Deposition Disease (LCDD)  highlights statements of light chains as it were. This is generally regularly connected  with κ free light chains. 

Serum protein electrophoresis or immunofixation is positive in 25-76% of  cases, while pee protein electrophoresis or immunofixation is positive in 42- 90% of cases. 

Serum free light chain estimation is positive in 100 percent of cases.

  1. Light and Heavy Chain Deposition Disease -Light and Heavy Chain Deposition  Disease (LHCDD or HLCDD in the logical writing) highlights testimony of both light  chains and weighty chains. Most regularly, this subtype is shaped from IgGk  monoclonal immunoglobulins. 

Serum or pee protein electrophoresis or immunofixation is positive in 80-100  percent of cases,  

while serum free light chain estimation is positive in 100 percent of cases. 

  1. Weighty Chain Deposition Disease – Heavy Chain Deposition Disease (HCDD)  highlights the affidavit of weighty chains as it were. Most regularly, this subtype is  framed of monoclonal proteins of the IgG1 subclass of IgG. The immunoglobulin  weighty chain in HCDD is habitually a shortened weighty chain. HCDD is the most  extraordinary subtype of MIDD. 

Serum protein electrophoresis or immunofixation is positive in 67-100 percent  of cases, 

while pee protein electrophoresis or immunofixation is positive in 50-100  percent of cases. 

Pathogenesis – 

LCDD: Approximately 80% of impacted patients have a strange kappa light  chain. Expanded hydrophobic amino acids in the variable district of the light  chains, typically in the CDR1 and CDR3 areas, diminish protein solvency and  upgrade tissue testimony in LCDD. A few light chains with post translational  glycosylation which are bigger than typical light chains have likewise been  related with LCDD. 

HCDD: It is because of the affidavit of shortened weighty chains with erasure of  CH1 steady area, forestalling getting together with the light chains. These  primarily strange weighty chains have an inclination for tissue statement and are typically not tracked down in the pee. 

Treatment – 

Treatment is aimed at the hidden monoclonal gammopathy, Early treatment is  prescribed in MIDD to forestall or lessen irreversible kidney harm and is planned to  decrease the development of the monoclonal proteins and may incorporate  bortezomib-based treatment, an autologous undifferentiated cell relocate, and  assuming the patient is viewed as qualified, an organ relocate. Bortezomib is as often  as possible utilized as it is less destructive to the kidneys which may as of now have  been harmed by the sickness. Sickness recurrence after organ relocation is normal. 

➢ There are no cylindrical cellar layer stores by immunofluorescence and  electron microscopy.

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