History
This test was invented in 1897 by the Polish doctor Edmund Biernacki. In some parts of the world the test continues to be referred to as Biernacki's Reaction (Polish abbreviation: OB = Odczyn Biernackiego.) In 1918 the Swedish pathologist Robert Sanno Fåhræus declared the same and, along with Alf Vilhelm Albertsson Westergren, are eponymously remembered for the Fåhræus-Westergren test (abbreviated as FW test; in the UK, usually termed Westergren test), which uses sodium citrate-coagulated specimens.
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