Morphological characteristics of peripheral blood erythrocytes in patients with disseminated atherosclerosis
Novitskiĭ, V.V.; Riazantseva, N.V.; Sokolovich, A.G.; Mikhalenko, V.V.
Klinicheskaia Laboratornaia Diagnostika 11: 19-21
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-2084 PMID: 11486740 Document Number: 522335
Studies of surface architectonics of erythrocytes in 20 patients with atherosclerotic involvement of the lower limb arteries by scanning electron microscopy showed clear-cut redistribution of the erythrocyte population, which depended on the cell morphology, with a tendency to a decrease in the count of discocytes and an increase in the counts of echinocytes, spherocytes, stomatocytes, and degeneratively changed erythrocytes.