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What could cause high protein electrophoresis urine .21 G/L?
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A 33-year old female asked:
What does a high alpha 1 protein electrophoresis mean?
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A 41-year old asked:
What does a high alpha 2 protein electrophoresis indicate?
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A 21-year old male asked:
Does protein electrophoresis serum help to rule out lymphoma?
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A 40-year old asked:
Serum protein electrophoresis - hight beta fraction, what does this mean?
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A 30-year old female asked:
In protein's electrophoresis Is polyclonal gammopathy alway pathological? Thanks
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A 33-year old male asked:
Doesn't immunofixation test for the same things as protein electrophoresis and even more than protein electrophoresis?
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A 23-year old female asked:
What would cause someone to have elevated IgM without a spike on protein electrophoresis? I've had mildly elevated IgM which is gradually increasing (currently 2.3, upper boundary is 1.9). Thanks?
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A 71-year old female asked:
Had protein electrophoresis and ana tested 9 months ago because of high inflammatory numbers. Everything normal. Now Dr wants to retest. Is this normal/necessary? Just asking because I have to pay a large portion of the bill?
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A 70-year old female asked:
I have Sjogrens and just had a Normal Protein Electrophoresis but rheumatologist is concerned about my PE Albumin 53.8 - has mentioned seeing a Hematologist. I try to learn as much as I can about these tests. Thoughts on the 53.8 Albumin?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Is a IgG quantitative test same as the serum protein electrophoresis test?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Will the serum protein electrophoresis test tell me anything that the immunofixation test would not tell me?
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A 22-year old asked:
Explain please results. CRP normal, plasma viscosity 1.83? Protein electrophoresis normal, connective tissue and rheumatic normal. Why viscosity high?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Urine protein electrophoresis 0.07/gL Normal or not? Suppose no protein in urine?
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A 26-year old male asked:
In a 24 hour protein electrophoresis urine test, is 4 mg / dL of protein in the normal range? And 43.2% of the urine is Gamma Globulin is that normal?
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A 27-year old male asked:
When do you use immunofixation protein electrophoresis instead of regular serum protein electrophoresis ? Is it more informative ? What about serum immunoglobulins?
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A 58-year old male asked:
M58, could RA factor test rule out rhemetoid artheratis and protein electrophoresis, serum calcium, fbc, ESR rule out multiple myleoma up to some extnt?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the difference in the utility of these 2 tests: IgG subclass (1-4) serum blood test.......And......Serum protein electrophoresis?
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A 31-year old male asked:
Slightly elevated beta fraction from serum protein electrophoresis. Beta 1.07 (high) (0.52-0.98) increased beta fraction, no monoclonal or polyclonal gammopathy seen. Immunofixation normal.
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A 50-year old female asked:
Dr ran a protein electrophoresis test on me (both urine and blood). Kappa light chains slightly elevated/flagged in serum (21.5) but normal range in urine. No M spike observed and all other values normal. Chances of cancer small?
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A 46-year old male asked:
Serum protein electrophoresis showed elevated beta-2 globulin, 5.3 g/L (reference range 2.0-5.0 g/L). What further testing could be done to rule out multiple myeloma, aside from immunofixation and quantitative immunoglobin?
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A 26-year old male asked:
I had a 24 hour Urine Protein Electrophoresis Test. My total Protein was 4 mg/ dL. UAlbumin 0.6, UAphla 1 0.5, UAlpha 2 0.6, UBeta, 0.7, and UGamma 1.7. No M spike observed. Are these normal ranges? Does this rule out Myeloma and Amyloidsis?
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A 57-year old female asked:
Wondering what might be wrong: becoming more & more anemic (hct 30; hgb 8.0; RBC 2.9, ESR 91; platelets 485k; serum protein electrophoresis showed a slight decrease in albumin.
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A 33-year old male asked:
If complement c3, ch50, serum protein electrophoresis, and immunofixation suggest severe infection, why is CBC normal? I've never had blood culture.
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A 39-year old female asked:
Lupus panel negative. Sed rate 30 should b under 20. Ana positive w/ spec pattern. Serum protein electrophoresis test normal. Cbc ok. Metabolic ok.?
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A 31-year old male asked:
I had normal serum protein electrophoresis. Alpha-1-globulin is 0.25 (0.17 - 0.50 g/dl). Low end of normal? Test for alpha1-antitrypsin? Dr not concerned. I have mild asthma (no wheezing, coughing, etc
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A 38-year old female asked:
Pulled hospital records to see LP results. Gluc/protein(n) electrophoresis(n) albumin (h), cultures(-), myelin basic (n). The rest was sent to mayo and another. Does all csf or ms labs process through mayo? Does mayo send results to back to hospital?
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A 49-year old female asked:
High KAPPA/LAMBDA LIGHT CHAIN/slightly high ratio.No Monoclonal protein immunofixation or serum electrophoresis. Is this a type of cancer?Normal WBC
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A member asked:
What does an abnormal protein band 1 mean on electrophoresis?
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A 63-year old male asked:
What does an abnormal protein band 1 mean on electrophoresis? Combined with IGG LAMBDA MONOCLONAL PROTEIN DETECTED
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