Title:How age and sex affect the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein in early rheumatoid arthritis. This study attempts to determine the impact of age, gender and BMI on the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) or C-reactive protein (CRP) in early rheumatoid arthritis. The findings are of interest but such studies are challenging to perform well given all of the potential conf...

The suitability of the plasma viscosity (PV) test has been examined in relation to the more commonly used erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) estimations as a diagnostic aid in 120 outpatients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and as an index of improvement during subsequent specific antirheumatic drug treatment (60 outpatients). Correlation data based on 7 clinical v...

Table. Laboratory Data Leukocytes (× 10 6.2 Neutrophils (× 10 4.5 Eosinophils (× 10 0.1 Basophils (× 10 0 Monocytes (× 10 0.7 Lymphocytes (× 10 1 Hemoglobin (g/dL 6.9 Platelets (× 10 21.8 CRP (mg/dL 5.52 ESR (mm/h >150 BUN (mg/dL 19 Creatinine (mg/d 0.89 AST (mU/m 10 ALT (mU/m 3 LDH (mU/ 112 Antinuclear antibody (Anti-CCP antibody (Rheumatoid factor (CRP: C-reactive protein, ESR: erythrocyte se...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is still a widely used parameter for acute phase inflammation. Recently, new methods based on direct undiluted measurement of ESR in a standard EDTA tube have been developed. We evaluated the analytic performance of one of these new methods, the Ves-Matic Cube 200 (Diesse Diagnostica Senese, Siena, Italy), and compared it with several established Westerg...

In 50 patients with non-infected total hip arthroplasties (THA), 233 C-reactive protein (CRP) values were obtained over a three-year period. Six of these 50 patients occasionally had CRP values of over 20 mg/l. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and CRP concentration were measured in 23 patients with deep infections of THA before revision. In 11 patients the infections were caused by coag...

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations were studied in 101 elderly individuals (mean age 72 y) to determine their utility as diagnostic aids in subjects with underlying infection/inflammation. Whereas ESR and CRP were both significantly increased in patients with infection or inflammation, or both, analysis of variance indicated that those subjects ...

background: evidence is accumulating that venous thromboembolism is not limited to coagulation system and immune system seems to be involved in formation and resolution of thrombus. some studies have demonstrated the role of inflammatory factors in deep venous thrombosis (dvt) of limbs; however, there has not been such study in the patients with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst). the purp...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a scientific basic for a unified standard for the reference value of middlescent people's erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in China. ESR measurements for healthy middlescent people were collected according to the Wintrobe method and the relationship between the reference value of middlescent people's ESR and altitude was tested in this paper It was fo...

Laboratory test overutilization increases health care costs, leads to unwarranted investigations, and may have a negative impact on health outcomes. The American Society of Clinical Pathology, in its Choosing Wisely Campaign, advocates that inflammation be investigated with C-reactive protein (CRP) instead of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), a tertiary...

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are markers of inflammatory conditions and have been used extensively by clinicians both in outpatient and inpatient settings. It is important to understand the physiologic principles behind these two tests so clinicians may use them appropriately. For example, fibrinogen (for which ESR is an indirect measure) has a much longer h...