Contrast media and red blood cell aggregation–interaction dangerous or harmless from a cunical view. An overview

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Aspelin, Peter^;

Affiliations: Department of Diagnostic Radiology Huddinge University Hospital S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden

Note: [] Paper read at the 7th. European Conference on Clinical Haemorheology symposium 3: Contrast Media, Southampton, 1991 and reviewed in accordance with the guidelines of Clinical Hemorheology.

Abstract: The increased aggregation of red blood cells seen in vitro with contrast media probably is of very little, if any, clinical importance. Of more importance is, however, the rheological changes which might be induced during a bolus injection due to rigidification of red blood cells which might change the possibility of red blood cells to pass through capillaries in the micro circulation.

Keywords: Contrast media, blood rheology, clinical importance

DOI: 10.3233/CH-1992-12306

Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 401-406, 1992