A patient with monoclonal gammopathy-related nephrotic syndrome revealed no electrophoretic "nephrotic pattern" or skewed free light chain ratio

Dorothy Truong; Ivan M Blasutig; Vathany Kulasingam; Pak Cheung Chan

doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.06.012

A patient with monoclonal gammopathy-related nephrotic syndrome revealed no electrophoretic "nephrotic pattern" or skewed free light chain ratio

Clin Biochem. 2018 Jan:51:110-111. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.06.012. Epub 2017 Jul 1.

Authors

Dorothy Truong¹, Ivan M Blasutig², Vathany Kulasingam², Pak Cheung Chan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28676334
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.06.012

No abstract available

Keywords: AL-amyloidosis; Immunofixation electrophoresis; Monoclonal gammopathy; Nephrotic syndrome; Protein electrophoresis; Serum free light chain assays.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Blood Protein Electrophoresis
Bone Marrow / immunology
Bone Marrow / metabolism*
Bone Marrow Examination
Humans
Immunoelectrophoresis
Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis / etiology
Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / analysis
Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / metabolism*
Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / urine
Male
Middle Aged
Nephrotic Syndrome / etiology*
Paraproteinemias / blood
Paraproteinemias / metabolism*
Paraproteinemias / physiopathology*
Paraproteinemias / urine
Paraproteins / analysis
Paraproteins / metabolism*
Paraproteins / urine
Reproducibility of Results

Substances

Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains
Paraproteins