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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-11-29
pubmed:abstractText
Blood, plasma and serum viscosity, packed red cell volume, and plasma fibrinogen concentration was measured in a group of 13 subjects, suffering from peripheral obliterative arterial disease of the lower limbs (stage III or IV), awaiting surgery, and in 9 control subjects, none of whom showed signs of circulatory disease of the lower limbs either by clinical examination or by instrumental measurements. The blood samples were taken from the: (a) antecubital vein; (b) femoral vein; (c) femoral artery. In the patients venous blood viscosity was significantly higher than arterial blood viscosity. No significant differences have been found between the femoral and the antecubital vein, but in the femoral vein blood viscosity was slightly higher. Packed red cell volume and plasma viscosity were slightly but significantly higher in venous blood, while no difference was seen in serum viscosity and in plasma fibrinogen concentration. In the control subjects blood viscosity values were decidedly lower than in patients and no statistically significant differences were to be found between artery and vein, even if viscosity values were lower in artery. These results support the hypothesis that an interrelation exists between hyperivscosity syndrome and vascular ischaemia-inducing diseases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0021-9509
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
379-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Arterial and venous blood viscosity in ischemic lower limbs in patients affected by peripheral obliterative arterial disease.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article