The erythrocyte adhesiveness/aggregation test to reveal real-time information of rheological relevance in patients with familial and primary hypercholesterolemia before and following plasma exchange

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-144

  Hershcovici, Tiberiu ^a   Elishkevitz, Keren ^b   Rotstein, Rivka ^b   Fusman, Renato ^b   Zeltser, David ^b   Shapira, Itzhak ^b   Arber, Nadir ^c   Avitzour, Daniel ^b   Berliner, Shlomo ^b,d   Beigel, Yitzhak ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Timotim Technologies   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte adhesiveness aggregation; Hypercholesterolemia; Plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FIBRINOGEN; GLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE ADHESIVENESS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADHESIVENESS; ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; GLOBULINS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 0036256901     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2002.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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