Monoclonal gammopathy of clinical and undetermined significance

Authors

  • Alissa Visram, MD Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58931/cht.2023.2340

Abstract

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is a pre-malignant condition that arises when clonal B-lymphocytes or plasma cells secrete a monoclonal immunoglobulin protein (m-protein). To be diagnosed with MGUS, patients must have bone marrow clonal cell involvement of less than 10%, an m-protein concentration of <30 g/L, and no signs or symptoms related to the clonal proliferative process. 

Author Biography

Alissa Visram, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON

Dr. Alissa Visram is a hematologist at the Ottawa Hospital and an assistant professor within the Department of Medicine. She completed her hematology training at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her subspecialty clinical and research fellowship in plasma cell disorders at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Visram holds a Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology from Harvard University. She joined faculty in Ottawa in September of 2021 as a clinician investigator. Her clinical research is centered on understanding and improving health outcomes of patients with plasma cell disorders and developing cost-effective and efficacious immunotherapies for patients with multiple myeloma.

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