[Coupling proteinemia and serum protein electrophoresis: evaluation of the capillary technique (Capillarys 2, Sebia), experience from Clermont-Ferrand].

Serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) is a routine analysis that requires to quantify the total serum proteins in order to calculate the concentration in g/L of each electrophoretic protein fraction. Aim of this study was to evaluate the performances of the « Capillarys Total protein » kit (Sebia®), coupled to the Capillarys 2 system (Sebia®), allowing the proteinemia quantification by capillary electrophoresis (EC) simultaneously to the electrophoretic separation. We compared the proteinemia analyzed in EC with the spectrophotometric reference technique for 904 serums.