Expires: April 8, 2023

Overview

Since the late 1960s, gel electrophoresis has been the standard of care for the detection of monoclonal proteins. Mayo Clinic’s high throughput clinical electrophoresis laboratory has stagnated in tests per full-time employee (FTE) as manual, semi-batch runs and paper result tracking are limiting our gel-based detection of monoclonal immunoglobulins (M-proteins). We recently described a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry method (MASS-FIX) as a plausible replacement for gel-based immunofixation (IFE).  However, to use MASS-FIX, a fully validated, automated method meeting current analytical capabilities was required. This webinar will cover the development work, clinical applications, analytical validation, and implementation of a MASS-FIX within the Mayo Clinic Protein Immunology Laboratory.

Presentation

Presenter

David Murray, M.D., Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Division of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Demonstrate how immunoglobulin light chain mass distributions can be used to detect M-proteins.
2. Illustrate the clinical utility of MASS-FIX through case presentations.
3. Educate laboratorians on the proper ordering of the MASS-FIX based panels.

Level of instruction: Intermediate

Intended audience

Hematologists, oncologists, and hematopathologists who diagnose and treat patients with multiple myeloma.

Questions?

Contact us: mcleducation@mayo.edu