ةیتوبكنعلا ةكبشلا و ينورتكللإا ثدحتلا و دیربلا لثم ةددعتملا اھتامدخب تینرتنلإا ةكبش ربتعت لا تامولعملا لدابت و لقنل ةیلاعف رثكلأا ةقیرط . يتلا تایوتحملاب ةمحدزم تدغ ةكبشلا هذھ نأ لاإ امداصت تببس " احضاو " امداصت لب اندیلاقت و انتاداع عم " نوناقلا عم . ةلیلق و ةئیذبلا عقاوملا ةیرصنعلا و ةیھاركلا ىلع عجشت يتلا عقاوملا و ةیحابلإا تایوتحملا تاذ ماشتحلاا لاإ تسیل يھ لافطلأا مھنمض نم و تینرتنلإا ةكبش...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder with periods of remission and relapses. The complexity of clinical presentation of the SLE patients leads to incorrect evaluation of disease activity. Mean platelet volume (MPV) has been studied as a simple inflammatory marker in several diseases. There are very few studies in the literature about platele...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The course of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is rather variable, and the factors that predict radiographic progression remain largely obscure. In this study, we tried to determine the clinical factors and laboratory measures that are useful in predicting the radiographic progression of patients with AS. METHODS In 64 consecutive patients with AS, we collected radiographic and lab...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of anaemia in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). PATIENTS AND METHODS 89 patients who fulfilled American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for RA were included in this study. The mean disease duration was 10.9±8.8 years. All patients received methotrexate (10.5±5.5 mg/week) in combination with folic acid. Steroid hormones were presc...

Foot ulcers are frequent in diabetic patients and are responsible for 85% of amputations, especially in the presence of infection. The diagnosis of diabetic foot ulcer infection is essentially based on clinical evaluation, but laboratory parameters such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white blood count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP) and, more recently, procalcitonin (PCT) could aid th...

BACKGROUND Recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have used patient- and physician-reported outcomes, ESR and/or CRP as components of ACR response criteria to assess efficacy. OBJECTIVES Mean changes from baseline in patient- and physician-reported outcome measures, ESR and CRP were compared in two RCTs in patients with active RA. Comparisons between active an...

BACKGROUND We investigated and compared the capacity of mean platelet volume (MPV) and other inflammatory markers in detecting Crohn's disease (CD) activity and differentiating CD patients from healthy controls. METHODS MPV, C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and white blood cells were measured in 61 CD patients and 50 healthy subjects. Disease activity was assesse...

OBJECTIVES To study the serum Procalcitonin (PCT) level in inflammatory arthritis including gouty arthritis (GA), Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) without any evidence of infection were evaluated the possible discriminative role of PCT in gouty arthritis susceptibility in southern Chinese Han Population. MATERIAL AND METHODS From Feb, 2012 to Feb, 2015, 51 patients w...

Result The patient was followed for three years for daily fever 40°C, hepato-splenomegaly, bone pain of the lower limbs and growth retardation. ESR (105mm/h) and Creactive protein level (CRP=97mg/l) were high. Bone X ray found multiple osteolytic and osteosclerotic lesions in femurs, tibia, and pelvis. Whole-body MRI showed hyperintensity of the skeletal bone marrow in T2weighted images and ret...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic inflammatory arthritis in children. Mean platelet volume (MPV) is an indicator of platelet size and has been investigated as an inflammation marker in several diseases. This study was designed to investigate the MPV values in patients with JIA and healthy subjects, and determine the correlation between MPV, C-reactive protein (CRP),...