Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate measurement by VES Matic Cube 80 in relation to inflammation plasma proteins
✍ Scribed by Helena Cerutti; Chiara Muzzi; Roberto Leoncini; Carlo Scapellato; Alessio Cortelazzo; Emiliano Furlani; Roberto Guerranti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-8013
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✦ Synopsis
Westergren method is considered as the reference procedure to measure Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) by the International Council for Standardization in Haematology. However, a closed automated method, VES Matic Cube 80 (DIESSE S.p.A., Siena, Italy), has been introduced as a new ESR measurement instrument. In this article, we report two different studies: first, we compared the two methods (Westergren and VES Matic Cube 80) and second, we correlated the inflammatory state of 248 patients with their ESR values. Total protein, albumin, C-reactive protein, and other inflammatory proteins were detected in each sample. The results obtained using VES Matic Cube 80 demonstrated a good correlation with those obtained using the Westergren method (Ordinary linear regression: y=0.955x-0.205, r(2) =0.816, P<0.05; Passing-Bablock regression equation: y=0.9153x-0.5763; Bland-Altman analysis: bias 1.2; limits of agreement -17.4-19.9) and with the inflammatory protein levels (CRP: r=0.554 and r=0.498 and Fibrinogen: r=0.699 and r=0.663 for Ves Matic Cube 80 and Westergren, respectively), supporting the hypothesis that VES Matic Cube 80 offers a fast and safe ESR determination, ensuring precision and a very good correlation with the reference method.