4690-4
Viscosity of Blood
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Term Description
Plasma and serum viscosity measurements are used in the clinical management of patients with hyperviscosity syndrome, which is caused by a variety of clinical diagnoses, such as polycythemia, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, multiple myeloma, and occasional cases of rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus, hyperfibrinogenemia and leukemia. Common symptoms of hyperviscosity are, bleeding, visual signs or symptoms, and neurologic deficits. The viscosity at which symptoms develop is variable, but they rarely appear below a serum or plasma viscosity of 3 cP. Viscosity can be reported qualitatively or quantitatively. Commonly, quantitative units are defined as "rel to H2O", and are expressed in centipoise (cP). PMID: 16830959 Whole blood viscosity is increased in polycythemia, rouleau formation, and other conditions listed for serum and plasma, but may be of limited clinical value because of the differences in shear rates between the instrument and in vivo conditions.[Tietz]
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Fully-Specified Name
- Component
- Viscosity
- Property
- Visc
- Time
- Pt
- System
- Bld
- Scale
- Qn
- Method
Additional Names
- Short Name
- Visc Bld
- Display Name
- Viscosity (Bld) [Visc]
- Consumer Name Alpha Get Info
- Viscosity, Blood
Basic Attributes
- Class
- SPEC
- Type
- Laboratory
- First Released
- Version 1.0
- Last Updated
- Version 2.73
- Order vs. Observation
- Both
- Common Test Rank Get Info
- 15144
Language Variants Get Info
Tag | Language | Translation |
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es-AR | Spanish (Argentina) | viscosidad: |
es-ES | Spanish (Spain) | Viscosidad: Synonyms: Cuantitativo |
es-MX | Spanish (Mexico) | Viscosidad: |
et-EE | Estonian (Estonia) | Viskoossus: Synonyms: Juhuslik Kvantitatiivne Veri Viskoossus |
fr-CA | French (Canada) | Viscosité: |
fr-FR | French (France) | Viscosité: |
fr-BE | French (Belgium) | Viscosité: |
it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Viscosità: Synonyms: Caratteristiche campione Punto nel tempo (episodio) Sangue Viscosità |
nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | viscositeit: |
pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | Viscosidade: Synonyms: Vicos; |
ru-RU | Russian (Russian Federation) | Вязкость: Synonyms: Вязкость Количественный Кровь Точка во времени; |
tr-TR | Turkish (Turkey) | Vizkozite: |
zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 粘性: Synonyms: 可用数量表示的; |
Example Units
Unit | Source |
---|---|
centipoise U | REGENSTRIEF |
cP | Example UCUM Units |
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