1. Comparative analysis of chosen hemorheological methods in a group of stroke patients
- Author
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Anna Marcinkowska-Gapińska and Piotr Kowal
- Subjects
Adult ,Materials science ,Physiology ,Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs ,Rheometer ,Physics::Medical Physics ,Blood viscosity ,Thermodynamics ,Models, Biological ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,Physiology (medical) ,medicine ,Humans ,Stroke ,Aged ,Hematology ,Blood flow ,Middle Aged ,Blood Viscosity ,medicine.disease ,Shear rate ,Amplitude ,Case-Control Studies ,Harmonic ,Hemorheology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Biomedical engineering - Abstract
Blood viscosity is one of the most important factors determining the blood flow. In this report we describe changes in whole blood viscosity in a group of patients after stroke measured as a function of the shear rate (flow curve) and also blood visco-elastic properties measured using oscillatory methods (dynamical mechanical analysis). The principle of the latter method is based on the measurement of the amplitude and phase of the sample oscillations driven by controlled harmonic strain. All measurements were performed by means of a rotary-oscillatory rheometer Contraves LS-40.
- Published
- 2009