A member asked:

If my doctor was looking 4 temporal arterties & when i had blood drawn sedrate&crp without pain would it still show up n my numbers if i had it?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Yes: It is an inflammatory condition and both ESR and CRP are markers for inflammation. It is much less likely to have temporal arteritis w/o pain in temples, but could be other vasculitis/arteritis.

Answered 6/10/2014

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