According to the diagnostic criteria for HHV-8 (human herpesvirus-8) negative/idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) proposed by Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) in 2017, there is a group of HHV-8 negative multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) patients who do not have symptoms and hyperinflammatory state and do not meet the iMCD criteria. This retrospective study enrolled 114 such patients, described as asymptomatic MCD (aMCD), from 26 Chinese centers from 2000-2021. …