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Medicina & Laboratorio 2010; 16 (01-02)

Eritrosedimentación: réquiem para una prueba

Campuzano MG

Language: Spanish
References: 415
Page: 11-40
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ABSTRACT

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate is one of the most requested tests to the clinical laboratory. However, its clinical application in the numerous clinical situations where it has been indicated in over 100 years, has been slowly decreasing as new assays, such as those for the acute phase reactants, are being developed, in particular for C-reactive protein, for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious and inflammatory diseases, including rheumatologic and cardiovascular diseases, and tumor markers in malignant diseases. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate has a very low specificity, and is usually performed manually which poses a high hazard to laboratory workers associated with the manipulation of the glass pipettes. After an exhaustive review of the literature in PubMed and Scielo search engines, this module presents the associated conditions in which erythrocyte sedimentation rate has been indicated as a useful assay and the different tests options with higher analytical performance and better cost-effectiveness to replace it. A call is made to the medical community to consider other options with a much higher sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values than the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, in each specific clinical situation.


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