Using serial haemorheological parameters to assess clinical status in sickle cell anaemia patients in vaso-occlussive crisis

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-148

  Awodu, O A ^a   Famodu, A A ^a   Ajayi, O I ^a   Enosolease, M E ^a   Olufemi, O Y ^b   Olayemi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

^b AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Haemorheology; Sickle cell; Vaso occlusive crisis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; PAIN; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

FIBRINOGEN;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS;

EID: 66549104503     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2009-1167     Document Type: Article

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