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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of this study was to ascertain if the hemorheological profiles in 35 elderly and 20 young to middle-aged patients returned to normal after bacterial infection. Erythrocyte sedimentation rates, fibrinogen levels, plasma viscosity, hematocrit, white blood cell count and filterability rates (through 5 mu diameter pore filters, using a low shear positive pressure Nuclepore filtration system) of red blood cells and unfractionated leucocytes were determined at the onset of acute bacterial infection, after 3 weeks at full clinical recovery, and again 2 weeks later at the end of convalescence. Our data confirm that rheological impairments exist at the onset of bacterial infection, and persist up to clinical recovery. At the end of convalescence the unfractionated leucocyte filterability rate was still significantly higher in the elderly patients, compared not only to our normal standard, but also to average values in the younger group.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0394-9532
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
57-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Blood rheology during bacterial infection in the elderly and early middle-aged.
pubmed:affiliation
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article