Abnormal Heavy/Light Chain Ratio and Matched Pair Suppression Increase Residual Disease Detection Sensitivity in Patients With Multiple Myeloma With Deep Responses

Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia
Kanji Miyazaki, Kenshi Suzuki

Abstract

Heavy/light chain (HLC) assay can quantify involved as well as uninvolved immunoglobulin pairs and is used to detect monoclonal proteins. We compared the sensitivity between HLC assay and serum protein electrophoresis, serum immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE), and free light chain (FLC) assay in patients with symptomatic multiple myeloma (n = 111) whose responses were stable disease or better. Among patients with negative IFE and normal FLC ratios, 84.4% (38 of 45) and 80% (36 of 45) exhibited normal HLC ratios and no pair suppression, respectively (13.3% [6 of 45], moderate pair suppression and 6.7% [3 of 45], severe pair suppression). The lower the monoclonal protein levels, the more the possibility that the patients had normal HLC ratios and no matched pair suppression (both P < .000001). HLC ratios or pair suppression combined with IFE results and FLC ratios were more sensitive for detecting monoclonal proteins than were IFE results and FLC ratios alone (P = .016 and .0039, respectively). A combination of all 4 methods (IFE, FLC, HLC, and pair suppression) was far more sensitive than were IFE findings plus FLC ratios alone (P = .00024). Abnormal HLC ratios and HLC-matched pair suppression can increase the sensitivity for ...Continue Reading

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Apr 26, 2020·Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry·Umberto BasileMarcella Visentini

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