Erythrocyte deformability in young familial hypercholesterolemics

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-48

  Vayá, Amparo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte deformability; Familial hypercholesterolemia; Rheodyn Shear stress diffractometer

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; SHEAR STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0031708275     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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