Welcome to this week’s TeamHaem case!
This week we start in general practice.
A 70 year old man saw your colleague complaining of shoulder pain.
Some bloods were done as he was due his ‘well man’ bloods around the same time.
FBC
- Hb 145g/l
- Plt 270
- Wcc 8.0
- Neuts 3.5
U&E
- Na 136
- K+ 4.1
- Urea 4.0
- Creat 77
Immunology
- IgA 2.97g/L normal range 0.64-2.97
- IgG 10g/l normal range 5.8-15.4g/l
- IgM 1.5g/l normal range 0.24-1.9g/l
- There is a monoclonal igA lambda paraprotein 2g/l
Questions:
- What would you say to the patient?
- What other information would you like to know?
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