febrile convulsion (fc) is the most common seizure disorder in childhood. white blood cell (wbc) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr) are commonly measured in fc. trauma, vomiting and bleeding can also lead to wbc and esr so the blood tests must carefully be interpreted by the clinician. in this cross sectional study 410 children(163 with fc), aged 6 months to 5 years, admitted to bahrami c...

PURPOSE Chronic inflammation induces cancer and cancer induces local tissue damage with systemic inflammation. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the potential relationship between the severity of inflammation and prognosis in cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study enrolled 220 patients from January 2002 to December 2006 who underwent gastric surgery. We evaluated t...

background: psoriasis is a chronic and inflammatory dermatologic disease. inflammatory biomarkers such as c-reactive protein (crp) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr) are known as immediate and delayed inflammatory biomarkers, respectively. due to the fact that anti-inflammatory drugs such as infliximab are widely used in psoriasis treatment, the aim of this study was to evaluate esr, crp ...

In their article entitled: “The decrease in erythrocyte sedimentation rate related to general anesthesia”, Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 35 (2006) 459–462, Caglayan and co-workers have investigated the effects of general anesthetic agents on erythrocyte properties, reflected in changes in the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). In their introduction the authors referred to the one-hour ESR method ...

BACKGROUND Patients with angina pectoris or myocardial infarction frequently present without evidence of cardiac-specific heart enzymes by laboratory analysis or specific pathologic electro-cardiogram findings. The current study analyzed the efficacy of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate as an additional potential indicator for coronary heart disease, the aim being to enable quicker identificat...

Certain factors are common to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the plasma viscosity. Thus fibrinogen increases the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (Gram, 1921 ; Greisheimer, Johnson, and Ryan, 1929) and Hardwicke, Ricketts, and Squire (1950) found that a direct logarithmic relation exists between the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the plasma fibrinogen concentration. Also fibrinogen ex...

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...