Open AccessWhere Did the Globulins Go?
Author(s) -
Sutirtha Chakraborty
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2014.232520
Subject(s) - globulin , albumin , confidence interval , gamma globulin , medicine , serum protein electrophoresis , serum albumin , chemistry , endocrinology , immunology , antibody , monoclonal , monoclonal antibody
A 50-year-old woman was being treated for sudden-onset sensorineural deafness. Serum total protein was increased at 10.1 g/dL (reference interval: 6.5–8.0 g/dL), and albumin was 3.5 g/dL (reference interval: 3.5–5.0 g/dL). The albumin-to-globulin (A/G) ratio was 0.35 (reference interval: 0.8–2.0). Because of the reversal of A/G ratio, serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) was requested (Fig. 1 …
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