title: [Dysalbuminemia].
abstract: Albumin is the major circulating protein. It plays a fundamental role maintaining intra-vascular oncotic pressure and carrying many endogenous and exogenous substances. Variations of plasma albumin levels can be physiologic or pathologic and both qualitative and quantitative (more frequent) disorders are regrouped under the name "dysalbuminemia". Although hypoalbuminemia are frequent, analbuminemia exists but is a rare disease. Qualitative disorders, mainly bisalbuminemia, are benign. Detected fortuitously on sera protein electrophoresis, bisalbuminemia could be genetically transmitted, it will then be permanent, or acquired and then be transient. This article proposes to review main kind of dysalbuminemia usually encountered in clinical biology laboratories.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de biochimie spécialisée, Centre hospitalier universitaire, Hôtel-Dieu de Nantes, France. kalyane.bach@chu-nantes.fr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bach-Ngohou
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Carrer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Masson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Denis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001796:Blood Protein Disorders / Q000097:blood / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics; D001797:Blood Protein Electrophoresis; D003720:Densitometry; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary; D005260:Female; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D034141:Hypoalbuminemia / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D012016:Reference Values; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin