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A L Sellers

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Atrial myxoma with multiple myeloma.

A male patient was observed for seven years, from the onset of neurologic symptoms to removal of a left atrial myxoma. Mild broad-based elevation of the serum gamma-globulin level with a normal bone marrow aspirate was seen early in the course of disease. The broad-based gamma-globulin level increased, and at the time of surgical removal of the tumor, the patient was found to have a monoclonal increase of K light chain IgG with 60% infiltration of the bone with immature plasma cells. The findings are consistent with the view that continuous immunologic stimulation by products of the atrial tumor resulted in malignant transformation of immunocytes with resulting IgG multiple myeloma.

Heart Atria↗

Renal transplantation in a Community Hospital.

Eighty renal transplantations were performed at an urban community hospital over a ten-year period. Forty-two transplants were from living related donors and 38 from cadaver donors. The one-year rejection rate for cadaveric transplants was 35% and for transplants between parents and children, 31%, whereas only one of 21 (5%) transplants between siblings was rejected during the first year. These results compare favorably with those reported by others and appear to justify performance of kidney transplantation in the community hospital setting where large numbers of transplant surgeons and nephrologists are involved, and where the number of transplants never has exceeded 15 per year.

Adolescent↗