Tempi_syndrome

TEMPI syndrome

TEMPI syndrome

Orphan disease


TEMPI syndrome is an orphan disease where the patients share five characteristics from which the acronym is derived: telangiectasias, elevated erythropoietin and erythrocytosis, monoclonal gammopathy, perinephric fluid collection, and intrapulmonary shunting.

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The patients were all diagnosed at middle age. A monoclonal gammopathy was implicated in all patients tested.[1]

Cause

The cause of the syndrome is unknown. The abnormal plasma-cell clone and/or the monoclonal gammopathy are suggested to be triggers of the disease.[2]

Diagnosis

The diagnosis is based on the five characteristics described above.[2]

Treatment

Complete and partial disappearance of the symptoms of the TEMPI syndrome was reported with the drugs bortezomib,[3] daratumumab[4] and autologous stem cell transplantation.[5]

History

In 2010, the case of a man with unexplained erythrocytosis and perinephric fluid collection as main features was described in the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital.[6]


References

  1. Sykes, David B.; Schroyens, Wilfried; O'Connell, Casey (2011). "TEMPI Syndrome – A Novel Multisystem Disease". N Engl J Med. 365 (5): 475–477. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1106670. PMID 21812700. S2CID 35990145.
  2. Sykes, David B.; O'Connell, Casey; Schroyens, Wilfried (2020-04-09). "The TEMPI syndrome". Blood. 135 (15): 1199–1203. doi:10.1182/blood.2019004216. ISSN 1528-0020. PMID 32108223.
  3. Schroyens, Wilfried; O'Connell, Casey; Sykes, David B. (2012). "Complete and Partial Responses of the TEMPI Syndrome to Bortezomib" (PDF). N Engl J Med. 367 (8): 778–780. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1205806. PMID 22913703.
  4. Sykes, David B.; Schroyens, W. (2018). "Complete Responses in the TEMPI Syndrome after Treatment with Daratumumab". N Engl J Med. 378 (23): 2240–2242. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1804415. PMID 29874534. S2CID 205064988.
  5. Bazari, Hasan; Attar, Eyal C.; Dahl, Douglas M.; Uppot, Raul N.; Colvin, Robert B. (2010). "Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 23-2010: A 49-Year-Old Man with Erythrocytosis, Perinephric Fluid Collections, and Renal Failure". N Engl J Med. 363 (5): 463–475. doi:10.1056/NEJMcpc1004086. PMID 20818867.

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