Determination of the length of sedimentation reaction in blood using the TEST 1 system: Comparison with the Sedimatic 100 method, turbidimetric fibrinogen levels, and the influence of M-proteins

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 904-906

  Ajubi, Nasser E ^a,b   Bakker, Andries J ^a   Van Den Berg, Gita A ^a  

^a Stichting KCL   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Clinical Chemistry ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Length of sedimentation reaction in blood; M proteins; Rheumatological diseases; TEST 1; Westergren method

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; M PROTEIN;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GOUT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF SEDIMENTATION REACTION IN BLOOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TURBIDIMETRY;

BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; FIBRINOGEN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745208968     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2006.151     Document Type: Article

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