INFLUENCE OF A VARIABLE MAGNETIC FIELD
ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOOD
IN TREATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

V. V. Kirkovskii,a V. A. Mansurov,b
N. P. Mit'kovskaya,a and Yu. A. Mukharskayaa

UDC 612.13

A study has been made of the influence of a low-frequency 
variable magnetic field on the rheological properties of the blood 
of patients having rheumatoid arthritis as compared to healthy donors 
by means of rotational viscosimetry. To interpret the rheological 
properties use has been made of a three-parameter rheological model 
one parameter of which is sensitive to the action of the magnetic 
field; the other two parameters of the model have not been found to 
be affected by the magnetic field. These parameters are related to 
the hydrodynamic properties of an erythrocyte suspension. The influence 
of the magnetic field on the dependent rheological parameter has been 
revealed not in all the experiments, which is attributable to its 
selective action on proteins ensuring the interaction of the erythrocytes 
with each other.

aBelarusian State Medical University, 
Minsk, Belarus; bA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass 
Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, 
Belarus; email: mansurov@tut.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 199-203, May-June, 2003. Original 
article submitted October 15, 2002.