BACKGROUND Erythrocyte sedimentation rate is widely used in the general population. It has seldom been studied in patients with chronic renal failure. The purpose of this study was to assess its usefulness in haemodialysis patients. METHODS Forty-five haemodialysis patients with no evidence of acute or chronic inflammatory illness were studied. Nine were diabetic, and 12 used a non-biocompati...

To compare between standard Westergren and modified microhaematocrit method for determination for erythrocyte sedimentation rate Study design: A laboratory method comparative study. Subjects: blood samples from 80 individual subjects. For each subject, two methods for erythrocyte sedimentation rate determination were performed. The first method was the Westergren method as a standard method and...

An elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate is generally regarded as an unspecific and mostly pathological indicator of inflammation or tumour. However, we have determined the concentrations of plasma/serum proteins that influence the erythrocyte sedimentation rate in numerous samples from several groups of patients with different diseases, including 2 forms of cancer. Equations have been develo...

Studies have highlighted the occurrence of Reactive thrombocytosis during the active phase of pulmonary tuberculosis. Role of platelets in inflammatory response is attributed as the cause. But very few studies have demonstrated changes in Platelet related indices in such cases. Hence we aimed to study the relation between platelet indices and an acute phase reactant, Erythrocyte sedimentation r...

We present the validation of a recent fractional mathematical model for erythrocyte sedimentation proposed by Sharma et al. \cite{GMR}. The model uses a Caputo fractional derivative to build a time fractional diffusion equation suitable to predict blood sedimentation rates. This validation was carried out by means of erythrocyte sedimentation tests in laboratory. Data on sedimentation rates (pe...

During a study of the behavior of sera derived from patients with carcinoma it became obvious that with the so-called "carcinolytic reaction" consistent results were not to be obtained, although accumulating data but added to the conviction that such sera possess properties which, in their action on cancer cells, distinguish them from normal sera. Inability so to adjust a carcinoma cell-serumco...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) has proved of the greatest use in the estimation of the activity or quiescence of chronic inflammatory disease. The mechanism of increase in the sedimentation rate is obscure, but experience has shown that the rate and amount of sedimentation is small when the destructive process is slight, and is markedly increased when the condition is active. Cholera ...