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15
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Medicine/Animal Health
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Cryoglobulins are proteins, usually immunoglobulins, that precipitate when
serum is cooled to temperatures less than body temperature and dissolve upo
n rewarming.
Clinical signs of monoclonal cryoglobulinemia are result of vascular obstru
ction and tissue ischemia and include erythema, hemorrhage, and necrosis of
the extremities.
Monoclonal cryoglobulinemia is rare in cars and. when detected, should prom
pt a search for underlying lymphoproliferactive or immune-mediated disease.