The incidence and significance of pseudoparaproteins in a community hospital

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 289-294

  Strobel, S L ^a  

^a ST VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunofixation electrophoresis; Monoclonal protein; Protein electrophoresis; Pseudoparaproteins

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; FIBRINOGEN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LYSOZYME; PARAPROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PARAPROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033884801     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Sequence of testing for monoclonal gammopathies
2. Procedures for the evaluation of monoclonal immunoglobulins
3. Multiple myeloma: Recognition and management
4. Role of urine and serum protein electrophoresis in evaluation of nephrotic-range proteinuria
5. Low concentration monoclonal and oligoclonal bands in serum and urine using the Sebia hydragel protein electrophoresis system
6. Oligoclonal banding in AIDS and hemophilia
7. Prevalence of monoclonal immunoglobulins after liver transplantation: Relationship with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders
8. Differential diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathies
9. Monoclonal and oligoclonal gammopathy after bone marrow transplantation
10. Oligoclonal proteins and Ig isotope switching in multiple myeloma treated with high-dose therapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation
11. The 'ladder light chain' or 'pseudooligoclonal' pattern in urine immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE) studies: A distinctive IFE pattern and an explanatory hypothesis relating it to free polyclonal light chains
12. Free fragments of gamma chain in the urine: A possible source of confusion with gamma heavy chain disease
13. Multiple narrow bands in urine protein electrophoresis
14. Oligoclonal bands and post-gamma globulin in electrophoretograms of cerebrospinal fluid
15. The cerebrospinal fluid and plasma concentrations of gamma-trace and beta2-microglobulin at various ages and in neurological disorders
16. The spinal tap: A new look at an old test
17. The basis of intra-blood-brain barrier IgG synthesis
18. Differential diagnosis of gammopathy by capillary electrophoresis and immunosubtraction: Analysis of serum samples by agarose gel electrophoresis