STATE OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOOD IN THE DYNAMICS OF DEVELOPMENT
OF ACUTE DISTURBANCES OF CEREBRAL CIRCULATION IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS PATIENTS

V. G. Ionova

UDC 616.831-005.4-06:616.151.4

The data on the state of the rheological properties of 
blood and the thrombocytic-vascular chain of hemostasis in the dynamics 
of development of transitional ischemic attacks and acute ischemic 
insult are presented and compared to the indices of healthy persons 
and patients with chronic cerebrovascular pathology. Throughout the 
period of observation, in the patients of all the groups examined 
we established changes in the increase in the blood viscosity, the 
aggregation of erythrocytes, and the content of fibrinogen (with decrease 
in the deformability of erythrocytes) and an increase in the activation 
of the function of thrombocytes against the background of the changed 
athrombogenic properties of the vascular system. It has been revealed 
that there is a close connection between the hemorheological disturbances 
and the heaviness of atherosclerotic affection of the main arteries 
of the heart.

Scientific-Research Institute of Neurology, Russian Academy 
of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 169-175, May-June, 2003. Original 
article submitted December 17, 2002.