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BLOOD
Volume 97, Issue 9, Pages 2900-2902Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V97.9.2900
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Using sensitive, automated immunoassays, increased concentrations of either kappa or lambda flee light chains (and abnormal kappa/lambda ratios) were detected in the sera of 19 of 28 patients with nonsecretory multiple myeloma, Four other patients had suppression of one or both light chains, and the remaining 5 sera had normal or raised free right-chain concentrations with substantially normal kappa/lambda ratios. Six of the patients with an elevated single free light chain, who were studied during follow-up, had changes in disease activity that were reflected by the changes in free light-chain concentrations. It is concluded that quantification of free light chains in serum should prove useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of many patients with nonsecretory myeloma, (Blood, 2001;97: 2900-2902) (C) 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.
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