Abnormal circulating red blood cells in the painful bruising syndrome
1978
Red cells of 3 patients with the painful bruising syndrome showed morphological anormalities. In the fraction not sedimenting in Ficoll/Isopaque gradient centrifugation, some of these cells had club-shaped processes, mitochondria, nuclear remnants, and vacuoles. In freeze-etch preparations, 90% of the red cells showed membrane elevations at pH 7.4 and 25% at pH 6.4, while in freeze-etch preparations of controls these values were 55 and 0 respectively. In addition, rouleaux formation was markedly enhanced in the preparations of blood of patients with the painful bruising syndrome.
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