[Correlation of the t(9;22), t(12;21), and DNA hyperdiploid content with immunophenotype and proliferative rate of leukemic B-cells of pediatric patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia].

Introduction: Between 60 and 80% of patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia show genetic abnormalities which influence the prognosis of the disease and the biology of the tumor.

Objective: To analyze different genetic abnormalities in acute B lymphoblastic leukemia in children, its relationship with the immunophenotype and the proliferative rate compared with normal B cell precursors.

Materials And Methods: We assessed immunophenotype, DNA content and proliferative rate in 44 samples by flow cytometry, and translocations t(9;22), t(12;21), t(4;11), and t(1;19) by RT-PCR.

[Glomerular deposition disease, regarding a case of fibrillary glomerulonephritis].

In routine diagnosis for renal biopsy, glomerular diseases are encountered that, viewed by electron microscopy, reveal deposits with a fibrillary structure in the extracellular matrix of the glomeruli. Amyloidosis is the most common glomerulopathy that shows deposits with an ultrastructural fibrillary structure. However, other glomerulopathies have deposits with an ultrastructural fibrillary structure and which are negative for Congo-red stain, but positive for immunoglobulins.

[Non-amyloidotic glomerular disease caused by light-chain deposits: a case report].

The nephropathy of monoclonal gammopathies is principally caused by light chain deposits of fragmented immunoglobins. Paraprotein-related renal diseases are associated with such deposits of intact (heavy chain) or fragmentary (light chain) immunoglobins. A condition of pathological light chain deposits is rare and characterized by deposits of fragments of monoclonal immunoglobulins in many organs.