Clinical Comparisons of Two Free Light Chain Assays to Immunofixation Electrophoresis for Detecting Monoclonal Gammopathy

Table 1

Study group of 120 patients.

Group	Diagnosis	Number of patients
Monoclonal gammopathy; (MG)	Multiple myeloma	35
	Light chain myeloma	10
	MGUS	9
	Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	4
	Amyloidosis	2
	Plasmacytoma	2
	Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia	1
	Total	63
No monoclonal gammopathy; (non-MG)	Chronic kidney disease	10
	Bone fracture	8
	Pneumonia	7
	Cancer	4
	Neuropathy	3
	Cerebral hemorrhage	3
	Anemia of chronic disease	2
	Iron deficiency anemia	2
	Autoimmune diseases	2
	Parkinson’s diseases	2
	Miscellaneous	13
	Total	57

MGUS: monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance.