Determination of diagnostic value (validity) leukocyte esterase (urine dipstick strip) in differentiating inflammatory arthritis from bacterial arthritis.
Mehrnoush Hassas YeganehMaryam TalaeiAlireza Ebrahimi BazzazKhosro RahmaniReza SinaeiMohammad-Reza FathiReza ShiariHamid HosseinzadehPublished in: Advances in rheumatology (London, England) (2020)
The leukocyte esterase strip test can be used as a rapid, bedside method for diagnosing or excluding bacterial infections in different body fluids. The synovial LE test can be used as an accurate test to rapidly rule in or out an acute articular bacterial infection, even in patients with concurrent inflammatory arthritis.
Keyphrases
- rheumatoid arthritis
- oxidative stress
- liver failure
- peripheral blood
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- high resolution
- respiratory failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- locally advanced
- drug induced
- solid phase extraction
- molecularly imprinted
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- liquid chromatography
- simultaneous determination