Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (1212 page)

   Unexplained peripheral neuropathy

   Recurrent infections

   Interpretation

Increased In

   
Albumin

   Usually in hospitalized patients, hemoconcentration, albumin perfusion

   Normal individuals: no clinical significance

   Bisalbuminemia (double band), permanent

   Bisalbuminemia, acquired, transient

   High doses of beta-lactam antibiotics (complex formation)

   Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice, complexed with bilirubin)

   Azotemia (urea and other N-compounds in blood)

   Pancreatitis, pancreatic fistulas, or ascites (lysis of albumin by pancreatic enzymes)

   
Alpha-1 globulin