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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient for multicentric Castleman's Disease?

Does the patient have?

• systemic constituional findings (weight loss, night sweats, fever, fatigue)?

• anemia?

• generalized lymphadenopathy?

• splenomegaly and/or hepatomegaly?

• a cutaneous rash?

• a vasculitis?

• neurologic changes (seizures, peripheral neuropathy, other)?

• peripheral edema?

• effusions?

• TTP?

• autoimmune hemolytic anemia?

Does the patient have?

• polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia?

• hypoalbuminemia?

• elevated C-reactive protein (CRP)?

• elevated IL-6 and other cytokines?

• elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)?

• a herpesvirus-8 viral load (HHV-8, Kaposi-sarcoma associated herpesvirus, KSHV)?

Has the patient developed?

• non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma?

• amyloidosis?

Results

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