Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Characteristic	Number evaluated or evaluable	Median (range)
Age, years	42	63 (44–81)
Gender, male (%)	42	21 (50)
Durie Salmon II/III (%)	37	16 (39)/21 (51)
Durie Salmon A/B (%)	41	34 (83)/7 (17)
Isotype: IgG/IgA/Light chain only (%)	38	25 (60)/7 (17)/6 (14)
Hemoglobin, g/dL	42	9.7 (7.6–15.3)
Creatinine, mg/dL	42	1.2 (0.6–3.8)
Calcium, mg/dL	42	8.8 (6.63–15.5)
Serum M-spike, g/dL	37	4.4 (1.4–8.8)
Urine M-spike, g/day	20	389 (10–4713)
Bone marrow plasmacytosis		50 (1,100)
Beta-2 microglobulin, mg/mL (range)	42	7.7 (2.5–31.9)
B2M ≥ 5.5		32 (76)
PCLI, % (range)§	33	1.6 (0 – 5)
PCLI ≥ 1		17 (40)
Deletion 13q-*(%)	41	6 (14)
Translocation (4;14)(%)	24	4 (10)
Translocation (14;16)(%)	24	0 (0)
Deletion 17p (%)	24	2 (5)

^*By metaphase cytogenetics