A protein found in the blood only as a result of cancer or other disease.
〔医〕病变蛋白，副蛋白
Example sentencesExamples
Efforts to eradicate or reduce the inhibitor titer in this patient were not successful despite the use of plasmapheresis to control the paraprotein.
An endogenous paraprotein was not detected by immunofixation electrophoresis.
Three years after chemotherapy, the Hodgkin disease was in remission, while the paraprotein persisted.
We present a case of a 48-year-old woman with a history of autoimmune hemolytic anemia and Graves disease who presented with hepatosplenomegaly and a gamma-heavy-chain paraprotein.
It does not appear to be a classic heterophile antibody, nor is it a paraprotein.
Definition of paraprotein in US English:
paraprotein
nounˌperəˈprōtēn
Medicine
A protein found in the blood only as a result of cancer or other disease.
〔医〕病变蛋白，副蛋白
Example sentencesExamples
Efforts to eradicate or reduce the inhibitor titer in this patient were not successful despite the use of plasmapheresis to control the paraprotein.
Three years after chemotherapy, the Hodgkin disease was in remission, while the paraprotein persisted.
An endogenous paraprotein was not detected by immunofixation electrophoresis.
We present a case of a 48-year-old woman with a history of autoimmune hemolytic anemia and Graves disease who presented with hepatosplenomegaly and a gamma-heavy-chain paraprotein.
It does not appear to be a classic heterophile antibody, nor is it a paraprotein.