Reference Interval:
| Test Number
| Components
| Reference Interval
| | | Total Protein
| 10-140 mg/d
| | | Albumin, Urine
| Detected
| | | Alpha-1 Globulins, Urine
| None detected
| | | Alpha-2 Globulins, Urine
| None detected
| | | Beta Globulins, Urine
| None detected
| | | Gamma, Urine
| None detected
| | | Free Urinary Kappa Light Chains
| 0.14 - 2.42 mg/dL
| | | Free Urinary Kappa Excretion/Day
| By report
| | | Free Urinary Lambda Light Chain
| 0.02 - 0.67 mg/dL
| | | Free Urinary Lambda Excretion/Day
| By report
| | | Free Urinary Kappa/Lambda Ratio
| 2.04 - 10.37 (ratio)
| | | IFE Interpretation
| By report
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| Interpretive Data: |
Total urinary protein is determined nephelometrically by adding the albumin and kappa and/or lambda light chains. This value may not agree with the total protein as determined by chemical methods, which characteristically underestimate urinary light chains.
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| CPT Code(s): |
84156 Total protein; 86335 IFE; 83883 x2 Nephelometry, kappa/lambda
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Cross References: |
Electrophoresis, Protein (Bence Jones Protein, Quantitative Free Kappa & Lambda Light Chains, Urine), Free Kappa & Lambda Light Chains, IFE (Bence Jones Protein, Quantitative Free Kappa & Lambda Light Chains, Urine)
, Protein Electrophoresis (Bence Jones Protein, Quantitative Free Kappa & Lambda Light Chains, Urine) |