Abstracts tagged "flare-up"

Abstract Number: 1094 • ACR Convergence 2021
Extremely Elevated Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Revisited in Rheumatic Diseases: Flare-Up or Infection? Single Centre Retrospective Analysis
Emre Bilgin¹, Zehra Ozsoy², Melek Seren Aksun³, İmdat Eroğlu³ and Umut Kalyoncu¹, ¹Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Ankara, Turkey, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: To compare the laboratory characteristics of patients who had rheumatic diseases and presented with extremely elevated ESR (≥100 mm/h) and had either disease flare-up…