Medscape

ESR more sensitive than CRP to changes in RA disease activity

Bethesda, MD - One of clinical medicine's oldest tools—the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)—surpassed serum C-reactive protein (CRP) as a measure of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) activity and may be ...
Medscape

Inflammatory Markers Elevated in Patients With Stable Pain

ORLANDO, Florida — Patients with intractable pain who appear to be stabilized on various pharmaceutical agents continue to show a variety of elevated inflammatory markers. While some continue to show ...
Medical Xpress

CRP can help assess severity of acute ulcerative colitis

(HealthDay)—A C-reactive protein (CRP) cutoff is a sensitive and practical alternative to erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) as a criterion to help determine ulcerative colitis (UC) activity, ...
Healio

Long-term elevated inflammation raises ILD risk in rheumatoid arthritis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Persistently elevated ESR and CRP in patients with RA were associated with greater risk for interstitial lung ...
Nature

Giant cell arteritis with normal ESR and/or CRP is rare, but not unique!

We read the paper by Levy et al 1 with interest, however, we believe that it contains several weaknesses which should be discussed. As it is well known the diagnosis of GCA is based on the combination ...
Nature

Evaluation of Quantitative CRP in Neonatal Sepsis Diagnosis

Introduction: Neonatal sepsis diagnosis is a problem, so pediatricians use laboratory direct methods (blood, urine, CSF culture…) and indirect methods (leukocyte count, ESR, qualitative and ...
Healio

Plasma D-dimer found noninferior to serum CRP in diagnosis of PJI

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed plasma D-dimer was noninferior to serum C-reactive protein and erythrocyte ...