Diagnostic finding
Elevated CRP
An increased serum concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) above the reference range (approximately 3-5 mg/L), reflecting activation of the acute-phase response and serving as a nonspecific biomarker of systemic inflammation, infection, or tissue injury.
Causes
Infection: Bacterial, viral, fungal
Autoimmune disease: Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, vasculitis, IBD
Tissue injury: Trauma, surgery, burns, ischemia, myocardial infarction
Malignancy: Solid tumors, hematologic cancers (lymphoma, leukemia)
Other conditions
Obesity
Smoking
Severe exercise
Pregnancy (mild elevation)
Also known as: Elevated C-reactive protein, High C-reactive protein, High CRP, Increased C-reactive protein, Increased CRP
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis
- Acute mesenteric ischemia
- Acute pancreatitis
- Anorectal abscess
- Aortic dissection
- Appendicitis
- Brain abscess
- Cellulitis
- Cholangitis
- Cholecystitis
- Choledocholithiasis
- Colovesical fistula
- COVID-19
- Crohn disease
- Discitis
- Diverticulitis
- Epididymitis
- Erysipelas
- Familial mediterranean fever
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Femoral hernia
- Inguinal hernia
- Ischemic colitis
- Kawasaki disease
- Liver abscess
- Meckels diverticulum
- Meningitis
- Mesenteric adenitis
- Multiple myeloma
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteosarcoma
- Otitis externa
- Ovarian torsion
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Perforated ulcer
- Pericarditis
- Peritonitis
- Pilonidal disease
- Pleural empyema
- Pneumonia
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Pyonephrosis
- Reactive arthritis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
- Rheumatic fever
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Shock
- Splenic abscess
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporal arteritis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Urolithiasis
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Whipple's disease
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.