On perihemorheology: Some facts and perspectives

Issue title: Alfred L. Copley Memorial Issue

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Witte, Siegfried

Affiliations: Medizinische Abteilung, Diakonissen-Krankenhaus, D-7500 Karlsruhe 51, Germany

Abstract: A survey is given which describes the actual situation of the rather new science of Perihemorheology, a term introduced by ALFRED L. COPLEY. Perihemorheology includes the exchange of rheological processes between the vessel - blood organ and its surrounding tissues as well as in reverse. The article summarizes the anatomical and physiological basis and includes own methodical approaches to the experimental and clinical pathophysiology of the Perihemorheology: the permeation through the blood vessel wall, the transport in the interstitium, the lymph production.

Keywords: Perihemorheology, permeability, microcirculation, interstitial fluid, lymph

DOI: 10.3233/CH-1992-12612

Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 903-933, 1992