A contribution to the kinematics of filtration, when plasma is separated from whole blood

Issue title: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Clinical Hemorheology. Part III. Baden-Baden, F.R. Germany, 24–27 August 1983. Symposium IV. Rheological Aspects of Plasma Separation and Plasmapheresis

Guest editors: Alfred L. Copley and Holger Schmid-Schönbein

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fisher, A.C.

Affiliations: Bioengineering and Medical Physics Unit, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, U.K.

Abstract: A “relative viscosity-haematocrit-rate of shear” relationship is used in the study of blood ultrafiltration in a parallel-plate plasmapheresis device. Some preliminary in vitro experimental work with platelet-poor ox-blood is presented.

Keywords: plasmapheresis, parallel-plate, blood viscosity, shear rate

DOI: 10.3233/CH-1985-5109

Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 61-69, 1985