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Original Article

Pe-Peg/Leh Can Reduce Its Interactions with Plasma Expanders Indexed Through Viscosity Measurements

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Pages 215-227 | Published online: 11 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

To investigate whether PE-PEG coated LEH (PE-PEG/LEH) can reduce its interaction with different plasma expanders and possibly suspended in those expanders, we measured the viscosity of PE-PEG/LEH suspended in different plasma expanders as an index for the interactions. The results showed that lower viscosity values for PE-PEG/LEH were observed compared with LEH especially in low shear rate regions (e.g., 7.72 ± 1.46 cp vs. 14.91±1.03 cp for γ = 2.25 sec-1, respectively). Moreover, the viscosity values for PE-PEG/LEH suspended in fibrinogen suspensions were much less than those of LEH in the same media at low shear rate regions (e.g., 7.72 ±1.59 cp vs. 25.78 ± 1.59 cp, γ = 2.25 sec-1, respectively). Similar results were observed for PE-PEG/LEH suspended in 1.83 % of oxypolygelatin (Gel) suspensions and 1.5 % hydrooxyethyl starch (HES) compared to LEH in the same suspension media. On contrast, PE-PEG/LEH suspended in dextran (Dex) showed that dramatically increasing the viscosity values in low shear rates com pared with LEH suspended in the same media (e.g., 78.87 ± 0.56 cp vs. 51.08 ±3.52 cp, γ = 2.25 sec-1, respectively) were observed. Since only minor interactions with Gel, HES or fibrinogen suspensions were observed, we suggest that PE-PEG/LEH suspended in those media but not in Dex can possibly serve for resuscitation oxygen-carrying fluids.

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