Plasma viscosity has several advantages over the erythrocyte sedimentation rate as a measurement of an acute phase response of more than 24 hours' duration. A new capillary viscometer (Coulter Viscometer II), which gives an automated measurement of plasma viscosity, was compared with the selected manual method (Harkness viscometer) of the International Committee for Standardization in Haematolo...

It is needless to say that the antibiotics is of prime importance in the treatment of various infectious diseases. But its management of exhausted host has been less evaluated in the past years. Adrenocortical hormone has been known to modify factors of the host in a few directions. Based on this idea, it would be quite reasonable to use adrenocorticosteroid hormone concomitantly with antibioti...

OBJECTIVES Emotion regulation is hypothesized to be related to health through neuroendocrine-immune changes. This study examined the role of the neuroendocrine variables 24-h urinary cortisol and noradrenaline, and the immune variable serum interleukin 6 as mediators between emotion regulation styles and health (perceived health and disease activity: erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and Tho...

Monodisperse populations of microspheres are desirable for a variety of research and industrial applications, but many desirable sizes and materials can be difficult to synthesize and have limited commercial availability. In this paper, we present an effective, straightforward, and low cost method for sorting polydisperse microspheres into many separate monodisperse samples. The basic approach ...

The Westergren erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and plasma viscosity were compared in 114 patients and their correlations with total and differential plasma protein fractions were analysed. There is a linear correlation between these two screening tests. Higher correlation coefficients were obtained between the plasma viscosity and fibrinogen and alpha and gamma globulins than with the ESR....

The Diesse Mini-Ves (DMV) erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) analyzer was designed to improve efficiency in determining the ESR. We compared the Westergren ESR method with the 4-sample DMV ESR analyzer for performance and clinical correlation. This prospective observational study, conducted at a 450-bed tertiary medical center, evaluated 291 paired samples from subjects with various systemic ...

Material and Methods Urine.-This was collected from eight female patients with severe and active rheumatoid arthritis (meeting ARA criteria), one of whom had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate ranged from 30 to 90 mm. in the first hour (Westergren). The WaalerRose test was positive in five and negative in three cases. Urine was collected for control purposes from ...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the impression of a better outcome of patients withdrawn from parenteral gold salt therapy compared with those withdrawn from methotrexate. METHODS Patients with early, active, and erosive RA were randomised for a double blind trial to receive either weekly 15 mg intramuscular methotrexate or 50 mg goldsodiumthiomalate. If the drug had to be withdrawn because of side effe...