Abstract
THE detection of impending thrombosis and initial atherosclerosis is one of the unsolved problems in medicine. In many cases1,2 diagnosis is made postmortem because of lack of methods for the detection and assessment of the pathological states. However, thoughts were expressed recently that one of the factors involved in these states is blood rheology.
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DINTENFASS, L. Blood Rheology in Cardio-vascular Diseases. Nature 199, 813–815 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199813a0
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