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 ...

Infections, as the news has shown time and again, can be deadly. Periprothesthetic joint infection (PJI) is the infection of grave concern to the orthopedic community, especially in its growingly ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In women with rheumatoid arthritis, obesity was associated an increased C-reactive protein and erythrocyte ...

Which serologic measure of inflammation is the most cost-effective and reliable when monitoring inflammatory disease? What should be done if there is a discrepancy in a patient’s C reactive protein ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and temporal arteritis (TA) are companion systemic inflammatory disorders that occur in older patients (mean age, 70 years) and are diagnosed on clinical grounds, based on ...

Background Acute lower respiratory tract infections are the most frequent reason for seeking medical attention in primary and secondary care. They are caused by viruses, bacteria or combination of ...