RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOOD
IN THE PROCESS OF PLASMAPHERESIS

S. V. Vilanskaya

UDC 612.13

The rheological properties of the blood of donors and 
patients have been experimentally investigated on a rotational 
viscosimeter in the process of plasmapheresis at a temperature 
of 30oC and rates of shear ranging from 1.7 to 54.2 sec-1. 
The efficiency of the plasmapheresis was increased when it was 
performed in combination with an extracorporeal autohemomagne-
totherapy. The action of the plasmapheresis and the combined 
action of the plasmapheresis and the extracorporeal autohemo-
magnetotherapy on the rheological properties of blood were 
compared.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: vilan@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 24-26, September-October, 2005. 
Original article submitted March 31, 2005.