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A member asked:
How well does "serum viscosity" blood test correlate to "whole blood viscosity" ? under what circumstances could 1st be norma and 2nd be high ?
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Red blood cells: Red blood cells and fibrinogen are present in blood but not in serum. Polycythemia, sickling, hyperfibrinogenemia might be your explanation.
Answered 11/26/2014
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Blood viscoisty: I do not think any such measure like whole body viscosity. Serum viscosity reflects the thickness of the blood which is inside the blood vessel.
Answered 11/14/2014
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Inflexable RBC's: Syndromes of hyperviscosity, due to increased whole blood viscosity may be caused by reduced deformability of red blood cells, often evident in sickle cell anemia, and polycythemia vera.
Answered 11/15/2014
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