Study of erythrocyte shape changes in schistosomiasis

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-28

  Amara, Fahmy ^a,d   Simpson, L ^c   Ghanem, Y ^a   Abdel Aati, T ^a   Korani, M A ^b   Youssef, E ^a   El Sheikh, S ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Deformability; Discoid cells; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER DISEASE; PORTAL VEIN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0037235208     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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