The hematocrit-erythrocyte-disaggregation-apparatus (HEDA)

Issue title: New Methods in Biorheology. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Nancy, France, 17–18 August 1983. A Satellite Symposium of the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology

Guest editors: J.F. Stoltz and E. Puchelle

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kiesewetter, H. | Mrowietz, C. | Lazar, H. | Jung, F.

Affiliations: Abt. f. Klin. Haemostaseologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes, 0-6650 Homburg/Saar, West-Germany

Abstract: We have developed a device for the determination of the minimum shear force necessary to maintain complete disaggregation of erythrocytes and to simultaneously determine the hematocrit of blood samples (red cells in autologous plasma). A functional relationship between this shear force and the hematocrit was determined. The first derivative of the (measured) γTmin as a function of the hematocrit was found to be identical (within limits) for all normal blood samples tested.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-23S136

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 23, no. s1, pp. 213-215, 1984