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Patients with myeloma excrete large amounts of light chains in their urine. These light chains may precipitate as casts eliciting a tubular epithelial response and inflammation in the adjacent renal parenchyma – so-called cast nephropathy. This cast nephropathy is one of the forms of kidney involvement in multiple myeloma.