Cairns Haematology

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Raised light chains

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Last updated Nov. 2, 2025, 6:30 p.m. by ivo

Serum free light chains are used to assess for clonally-restricted plasma cell populations. As such, they are only diagnostically useful and reflect possible pathological plasma cell conditions when there are elevated kappa or lambda serum free light chains AND the ratio of kappa to lambda free light chains is abnormal.