Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for FREE ACCESS to this landmark database

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Clinical Pediatrics
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Schimmelpfennig, R. W.
Right arrow Articles by Chusid, M. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Schimmelpfennig, R. W., JR
Right arrow Articles by Chusid, M. J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Illnesses Associated with Extreme Elevation of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Children

Robert W. Schimmelpfennig, JR

From the Department of Pediatrics, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Michael J. Chusid

From the Department of Pediatrics, the Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The laboratory and hospital records were reviewed for the 156 children seen at Milwaukee Children's Hospital over a thirty-one month period with erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) greater than or equal to 100 mm/hr. Fifty-five per cent of the children had an underlying infectious disease, 25 per cent had a collagen or renal disease, 13 per cent had neoplasms, and 6 per cent had miscellaneous disease processes. Patients with infectious diseases and high ESRs were significantly younger, significantly more febrile, and had higher leukocyte and absolute band counts than did patients in the other groups. Patients with malignancy had significantly lower hemo globin levels, leukocyte and absolute PMN counts. Some patients did die during the 30-month study period but not during the particular hospitalization in which the ESR was obtained.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 19, No. 3, 175-178 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288001900303
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 CLIN PEDIATRHome page
A. Huttenlocher and T. B. Newman
Evaluation of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Children Presenting with Limp, Fever, or Abdominal Pain
Clinical Pediatrics, June 1, 1997; 36(6): 339 - 344.
[Abstract] [PDF]