Effect of High Concentrations of Leukocytes on Whole Blood Viscosity |
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| Authors: | STEINBERG, MARTIN H. CHARM, STANLEY E. |
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| Affiliation: | 1 Blood Research Laboratory, New England Medical Center Hospitals, and theDepartments of Medicine and Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston,Mass.
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| Abstract: | Whole blood viscosity of patients withleukemic leukocytosis was compared tothat of normals with a similar totalpacked cell volume (TPCV). Leukocytesin suspension were also studied andfound to have a greater viscosity thanerythrocytes. We found no relation between the magnitude of the leukocytecount and whole blood viscosity. Thepresence of anemia in the patients withleukemia prevented elevation of theirTPCV. This, as well as the normal variability of blood viscosity obscured anyincrease that could have been producedby the greater viscosity of massed leukocytes. Submitted on February 25, 1971 Revised on April 6, 1971 Accepted on April 7, 1971 |
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