BACKGROUND: Many theories regarding the pathophysiology leading to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) have been proposed and tested. Increased erythrocyte aggregation is associated with capillary slow ̄ow and tissue hypoxaemia. We performed this study in order to assess the degree of erythrocyte aggregation in the peripheral blood of individuals with OHSS and undergoing controlled ovarian ...

OBJECTIVE Enhanced erythrocyte aggregation, revealed using a simple bedside test, has been found recently in several inflammatory conditions. The diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is at times difficult because of the vague symptoms and signs, but is crucial because even mild PID can have future reproductive consequences. Our objective was to determine the degree of erythrocyte aggr...

Relationships between Se and Hg in erythrocytes, and between these indices and intakes of fish and other foods, were studied as an adjunct to the British National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) of young people aged 4-18 years. Hg was measured in 965 packed erythrocyte samples by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Fe measurements permitted the calculation of whole-blood Hg. Erythroc...

In a recent paper by Wiewiora et al. published in this Journal [7], the authors observed that superobese patients (BMI >50 kg/m2) show erythrocyte rheological differences when compared with morbidly obese patients (BMI >40 kg/m2). In this sense, although they did not observe differences in erythrocyte deformability using the LORCA device, they found a higher erythrocyte aggregation index (AI10)...

Erythrocyte indices used to differentiate between iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and thalassaemias have been studied mainly in countries with a high prevalence of IDA or beta-thalassaemias. This study was carried out in the United Arab Emirates where alpha-thalassaemias are prevalent. We studied the predictive value and Youden index of several indices in 85 children aged 6 months to 12 years wit...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to associate serum levels of myocardial enzymes and inflammatory biomarkers with severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). PATIENTS AND METHODS 123 patients participated in our study, including 65 cases of acute myocardial infarction (MI), 27 cases of newly diagnosed CAD--without MI--and 31 controls. In all subjects, myocardial serum enzyme levels (creatine phosp...