Blood viscosity changes in slow coronary flow patients

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-35

  Ergun Cagli, Kumral ^a   Ileri Gurel, Esin ^b   Ozeke, Ozcan ^c   Seringec, Nurten ^b   Yalcinkaya, Adnan ^a   Kocabeyoglu, Sabit ^a   Basar, Fatma Nurcan ^a   Sen, Nihat ^a   Cagli, Kerim ^a   Dikmenoglu, Neslihan ^b  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Akay Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

erythrocyte aggregation; erythrocyte deformability; plasma viscosity; Slow coronary flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGREGATION INDEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYTOMETRY; EKTACYTOMETER; ELONGATION INDEX; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLOW CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOLYSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TIME FRAME COUNT; VISCOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79951823049     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2010-1362     Document Type: Article

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