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Cinderella in Serum Protein Electrophoresis
Srinivas Narasimhachar Chakravarthy1, Satish Ramanathan1, Smitha Menon1
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, MIOT Hospitals, No. 4/112, Mount Poonamallee Road, Manapakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600089 India.
Abstract:
Paraproteinemia is characterised by clonal proliferation of plasma cells. A common laboratory finding in paraproteinemia being a monoclonal peak in serum protein electrophoresis (M band). But there are factors which produce a peak similar to M spike in serum protein electrophoresis and these factors are known as pseudoparaproteins. This case report discusses a rare cause of pseudo M spike in a known case of autoimmune hemolytic anaemia due to administration of drug-Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody by itself.
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