Table 1.

Human CRP responses in different diseases.

Major CRP acute-phase response
Infections	Bacterial
	Systemic/Severe fungal, mycobacterial, viral
Allergic complications of infection	Rheumatic fever
	Erythema nodosum
Inflammatory disease	Rheumatoid arthritis
	Juvenile chronic arthritis
	Ankylosing spondylitis
	Psoriatic arthritis
	Systemic vasculitides
	Polymyalgia rheumatica
	Crohn's disease
	Familial Mediterranean fever
	Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes
Necrosis	Myocardial infarction
	Stroke
	Tumor embolisation
	Acute pancreatitis
Trauma	Surgery
	Burns
	Fractures
Malignancy	Lymphoma
	Carcinoma
	Sarcoma
Modest or absent CRP acute-phase response
	Systemic lupus erythematosus
	Scleroderma
	Dermatomyositis
	Ulcerative colitis
	leukemia
	Graft-vs.-host disease