Proteins in Urine & CSF (Total)

Pyrogallol red | Colorimetric

Product description:

Elevated CSF protein concentration is the most common CSF abnormality found in patients with spine or spinal cord diseases and hypothyroidism. It occurs in the majority of patients with spinal cord tumors, paraneoplastic myelopathies, radiation myelopathies, vascular malformations, epidural abscesses, syringomyelia with spinal block, and spinal cord trauma. It is also elevated in some patients with transverse myelitis (TM), and it has been associated with epidural hematomas and at least one case of primary spinal cord vasculitis. Other reasons for Mild protein elevation may be caused by viral meningitis, neurosyphilis, subdural haematoma, cerebral thrombosis, brain tumour, multiple sclerosis (rarely >1.00 g/L). Moderate or pronounced elevation may be caused by acute bacterial meningitis, tuberculous meningitis, spinal cord tumour, cerebral haemorrhage, Guillain-Barre syndrome. High CSF protein concentration has been reported to be significantly and independently associated with an unfavorable outcome in patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL).