Background and objective: The Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) is indirect measures that can be used to assess a patient’s gerenal level of inflammation. An extremely elevated ESR (>100 mm/h) has a 90% predictive value for a serious diseases. This study has been done for preparing more information about the reasons of ESR (>100 mm/h) in adults who had been referred to Imam-Khomeini hospital.
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive study and whole hospitalized patients in this hospital with the ESR levels more than 100 included in this study from September 2014 to September 2015.
Results: 127 patients have been encountered in this study and 59.08% of them were female and 40.92% were male. The average age of the participants were 55.54 and the average ESR level were 112.6 with the highest affluence of 34% for infection and 13% for other diseases. The most important illnesses in this study were osteomyelitis (14%), CKD (14%) RA (10%). The levels of Hb and Cr have been evaluated that are 9.27 for Hb and 2.1 for Cr.
Conclusion: In comparison to different studies, the most important reasons for the rise of ESR level are infection diseases and secondary reasons malignancies and autoimmune diseases and kidney defects are the reasons for the rise of ESR level
