title: Influence of an ionic and a nonionic (sodium meglumine diatrizoate and iopromide) x-ray contrast medium of hemorrheology.
abstract: In two groups of ten patients each, an ionic and a nonionic contrast medium was injected intravenously, for digital subtraction angiography of the supra-aortic branches, to examine the influence of hemorrheologic properties. Afterward, blood samples were obtained through a central venous catheter and evaluated by a new instrument (oscillating capillary rheometer and densitometer). The viscous and elastic components of the complex blood viscosity and the hematocrit decreased after injection of ionic and nonionic contrast media. A statistically significant difference between the patient groups could not be found. The evaluated results describe an improvement of the hemorrheologic properties after contrast media injection.
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Strecker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stengel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Witte
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001809:Blood Viscosity / Q000187:drug effects*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003287:Contrast Media; D003974:Diatrizoate Meglumine; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D007472:Iohexol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D012212:Rheology; D013382:Subtraction Technique
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D003974:Diatrizoate Meglumine; D007472:Iohexol; C038192:iopromide