Serum Protein Zone Electrophoresis—An Outmoded Test?

Is VVI pacing outmoded?

Pacing is a common clinical procedure. The permanent implant rate in the United Kingdom is lower than in other Western countries. The last World Survey' showed a new implant rate of 148 per million population per year (8346 systems) in the United Kingdom. This compares with 421 in Germany, 413 in France, 359 in the United States, and 175 in Spain. In the United Kingdom, the pacing mode was simp...

Integrity--an outmoded concept?

We’ve heard a lot in the news recently about “integrity,” or the lack thereof. Although the word has been used most often in politics, it has surfaced in business, medicine, law and even in relation to the United States site for the Winter Olympics. I’ve pondered what this word really means. It is associated with images of “honesty,” “a handshake is as good as my bond,” “keeping promises,” “hon...

Serum protein electrophoresis: an underused but very useful test.

Serum protein electrophoresis is used in clinical practice to identify patients with multiple myeloma and other serum protein disorders. It is an inexpensive and easy-to-perform screening procedure. Electrophoresis separates serum proteins based on their physical properties and identifies morphologic patterns in response to acute and chronic inflammation, various malignancies, liver or renal fa...

Lipoprotein Patterns of Serum Obtained by Zone

For a number of years the lipoproteins of serum have been classified as alpha and beta types according to their electrophoretic mobility. Despite this designation very few studies of their electrophoretic properties have been reported. This is chiefly due to the fact that it is very difficult to determine exactly where the lipoproteins migrate when patterns of whole serum are obtained by the cl...

Zone electrophoretic studies of serum alkaline phosphatase.