CHARACTER OF CHANGES IN THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOOD 
AND THE STATE OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD FLOW IN PATIENTS WITH
HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

N. N. Samsonova, M. G. Plyushch, K. V. Borisov, 
E. D. Savchenko, and E. V. Zlochevskaya

UDC 616.515.4-08:616.1-052
A comparative characteristic of the rheological properties 
of blood and the state of peripheral Blood flow in patients with hypertrophic 
obstructive cardiomyopathy is presented. 48% of the patients had Marked 
disturbances of the rheological properties of blood. It is shown that 
disturbances of microcirculation are in many respects due to the changes 
in the viscosity indices of erythrocytes and plasma.

A. N. Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular 
Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia; email: 
plyushch@relline.home.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 181-184, May-June, 2003. Original article 
submitted December 27, 2002.