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Macroglobulinemia

A condition in which the blood contains high levels of large proteins and is too thick to flow through small blood vessels.

The large protein is an antibody called macroglobulin or IgM.

One type of macroglobulinemia is Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia, a type of cancer

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