The ESR test is considered as blood deposition, which is a laboratory test, through which the blood components are deposited and the time of the deposition is calculated. It is used medically to detect some of the diseases caused by the inflammation and to feel pain in the bones and limbs. The level of red blood cell deposition to see inflammation in the body.
Inflammation generally changes proteins in blood cells, causing them to form in clusters, becoming more dense than proteins in normal blood cells. The ESR test simply measures the deposition velocity in cells; The lower the tube of the test; the higher the speed of the fall down, the signifies the presence of inflammation in the body.
The main purposes of doing an ESR scan
Arthritis often leads to inflammation of the lining of joints, resulting in pain, joint damage and sometimes deformity. As for muscle pain, it is often used to diagnose muscle pain, rheumatoid arthritis, Is an inflammatory disorder resulting in pain and stiffness in the shoulders, pain in the arms and hips, and pain in the neck, in addition to pain in the thighs, and for inflammation of the artery with giant cells, it indicates the presence of inflammation in the lining of the arteries, resulting in pain in the jaw , Feeling headache, lack of clarity and vision.
Causes of high level of blood deposition
There are many reasons that lead to high blood deposition including: anemia, menstruation, pregnancy in women, kidney disease, tuberculosis and syphilis, as well as thyroid diseases, and some medicines such as: tablets to prevent pregnancy, dextran, vitamin A supplements, And methyl, all of which lead to an increase in the deposition rate to more than normal, in addition to the inflammation of the walls of vessels, vascular inflammation necrosis, and cancer of lymphocytes, all lead to a very high level of blood deposition.
Causes of low blood deposition
The decrease in blood deposition may not be very troubling, but you should know that congestive heart failure, kidney and liver disease, some abnormalities in protein, and sickle cell anemia may lead to low sedimentation, as well as certain drugs such as quinine, aspirin, And cortisone, leading to a decrease in blood deposition.