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what is normal esr level
A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Martin Raff answered
55 years experience Infectious Disease
ESR: This is a very non-specific measure of inflammation and if the cause of the initial elevation has been corrected (either spontaneously or through ther ... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Martin Raff answered
55 years experience Infectious Disease
Lab data: The ESR is a completely non-specific measure of inflammation. Without knowing anything else it is meaningless. You need clinical correlation. If you h ... Read More
A 30-year-old female asked:
Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered
52 years experience Infectious Disease
Yup, normal: Westergren is the standard method to measure the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR, "sed rate"). At your age (women under 50) anything und ... Read More
A 48-year-old female asked:
Dr. Luis Bendezu answered
28 years experience Internal Medicine
Complicated: The ESR is a marker of inflammation. Infections and auto-immune diseases are two things that can make it go up. It also tends to go up a little as we ... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
43 years experience Pathology
Means nothing: I'm a pathologist and consider that normal. Sed rate is hard to do correctly in any case, and the results mean nothing whatever in isolation. If you h ... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kristen Dall-winther answered
16 years experience Family Medicine
No more labs!: Absolutely not! If you are otherwise feeling well, there is no need to recheck an ESR at any point. Great news!
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A 43-year-old female asked:
Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
48 years experience Pathology
Need to examine: It is not feasible to provide a meaningful opinion without additional history, physical examination and may be some tests. Elevated ESR is a non-speci ... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Betty Keller answered
34 years experience Rheumatology
Depends on the lab: Reference ranges can vary depending on the laboratory.
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A 45-year-old female asked:
Dr. Al Hegab answered
39 years experience Allergy and Immunology
How low? : Picture is incomplete, we don't treat lab results, rather patients. You need to be evaluated as a whole, low IgG3, an IgG subtype, can be meaningless, ... Read More
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A 45-year-old member asked:
Dr. Michael Engel answered
19 years experience Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
This is an odd.....: Question. Of course, a theoretical answer is yes, but i would ask you why you are focussed on whether or not you have cancer? Likewise, why are you a ... Read More
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