IMPROVEMENT OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BLOOD AS A RESULT 
OF DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATION OF ULTRAVIST IN THE CASE OF ENDOVASCULAR
INTERVENTION IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY

L. N. Gotman and L. I. Ershova

UDC 616.155.194:616.155.164.18:616.13/14073.755.4

It has been shown that the action of a nonionic radiopaque 
preparation - ultravist (the total dose of iodine is 112 g) - 
on a patient with chronic renal insufficiency complicated by relapsing 
massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage, who was subjected to angiographic 
investigations and radiological occlusion of the bleeding artery, 
improved the rheological properties of his blood (viscosity of plasma 
and the aggregation and rigidity of erythrocytes) and did not cause 
an overall toxic effect.

Hematologic Scientific Center, Moscow, Russia; email: 
eli@blood.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 
76, No. 3, pp. 179-180, May-June, 2003. Original article submitted 
November 12, 2002.