What are the symptoms of MGUS? – International Myeloma Foundation
International Myeloma Foundation shared a post on X:
“What are the symptoms of Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)?
Joseph Mikhael, Chief Medical Officer of the International Myeloma Foundation, explains in the short clip.
‘Symptoms of MGUS in adults. I could answer this very briefly and say, by definition, MGUS is meant to be asymptomatic.
So someone has the myeloma protein in their blood at a low level.
If we happen to do a bone marrow test, which we don’t typically do in most MGUS patients, they have less than 10% plasma cells because over 10% defines myeloma, but they really shouldn’t have any symptoms.
And the only caveat I would add to this is that there are some MGUS related conditions where people can have an effect on their nerves or their skin, but we typically don’t think of those as just simple MGUS.
They’re an MGUS associated separate condition. All right, let’s go to the next search item.’
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