The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) remains a widely used clinical assay to assess systemic inflammation by measuring the rate at which erythrocytes settle in anticoagulated blood over a fixed ...
Lisa C. Herbert, Qingzhi Zhu, Alexander B. Michaud, Katja Laufer-Meiser, Christopher K. Jones, Natascha Riedinger, Zachery S. Stooksbury, Robert C. Aller, Bo Barker ...
ESRs can be slow to rise, and in 5%-10% of patients with polymyalgia-temporal arteritis, a second normal value may be needed to exclude these inflammatory illnesses. The assay for C-reactive protein, ...