Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is a rare disease that may present de novoor secondary to plasma cell myeloma. Advanced disease and extramedullary involvement are common clinical features at presentation.

Castleman disease is an idiopathic, rare lymphoproliferative disorder. It is classified as multicentric Castleman disease, ...

In a new study, researchers found that the inflammation behind painful episodes in sickle cell disease are correlated with ...

Two small clinical trials tested the safety of injecting stem cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients and found no ...

The researchers discovered that disease-scarred lung tissue abounds in plasma cells -- specialized immune cells that typically reside in bone marrow and produce antibodies. "What we found most ...

PC-CD diagnosis requires interfollicular plasmacytosis, polytypic or occasionally monotypic plasma cells, and exclusion of other conditions such as infections or autoimmune disease.

Researchers have demonstrated the potential of the innovative optical genome mapping (OGM) technique for the diagnosis, ...

The abnormal accumulation of antibody-producing immune cells in the lungs may contribute to IPF progression, a new study ...

Somewhere in the body of a patient, a small clump of cells, growing undetected, has begun to form a tumor. It has yet to ...

Having found the plasma cells in lung tissue taken from people who died of IPF, the team began using live mice to see if reducing plasma in the lungs slowed disease formation. This work ...