Question

why ESR is considered as useful clinical application​

Answer 1

Answer:

Monitoring response to therapy

Explanation:

The clinical usefulness of ESR is limited to monitoring the response to therapy in certain inflammatory diseases such as temporal arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica and rheumatoid arthritis. It can also be used as a crude measure of response in Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Synonyms: sedimentation rate, Westergren ES...

Test of: The rate of sedimentation of erythrocytes ...

Purpose: Detection of inflammation in body.