FEATURES OF THE MICRORHEOLOGICAL
BEHAVIOR OF BLOOD IN CHILDREN

Yu. V. Rumyantseva,a A. Yu. Ostroumova,b 
N. S. Smetanina,a and N. N. Firsovb 

UDC 577.353:567.322:612.766

The blood of healthy children aged 2-14 was investigated. 
No differences between the aggregation parameters depending on the 
sex were revealed. In the children under the age of five, the amplitude 
of aggregation and the time of formation of linear aggregates were 
reliably lower and the strength of the largest of them and their total 
strength were decreased in comparison with the other age groups. An 
inverse correlation between the strength of the aggregates and the 
number of reticulocytes and leukocytes and HbA2 
in the blood has been revealed.

aScientific-Research Institute 
of Children's Haematology, Ministry of Public Health of the Russian 
Federation, Moscow, Russia; bRussian State 
Medical University, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 209-213, May-June, 2003. Original 
article submitted September 6, 2002.