C-REACTIVE PROTEIN TEST IN PATIENTS WITH FOCI OF CHRONIC ORAL INFECTIONS AND CIRCULATORY AND COLLAGEN DISEASES
Abstract
The results of studying the CRP test on 895 patients with various nosological forms show that this pathological protein appears in the blood during diseases which have as their basis an inflammatory or necrobiotic process. The content of CRP depends on the acuteness and latitude of the pathological process. Setting up the test in the earliest periods from the day of development of the disease makes it possible to determine CRP more frequently and in a greater quantity. As the activity of the process abates the concentration decreases and the number of positive CRP tests is lowered. The disappearance of CRP from the blood (especially against a background of hormone therapy) does not always testify to the liquidation of the pathological process. Only after a comparison of the clinical picture of the disease with other laboratory tests and a repeatedly negative CRP test is it possible to resolve the question of remission. The CRP test is of very great help in the differential diagnosis between prolonged stenocardia and myocardial infarction, the active phase of rheumatism and the non-active, expressed polyarthralgia and subclinical aggrevation of infectious arthritis. The evaluation of such a test should be based on the clinical picture of the main disease, taking into consideration foci of chronic infection, during which CRP may be determined in insignificant concentrations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0675193
Entities
People
- V. N. Latysh
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories