[Validation and approaches to correction of hemorheologic disorders in patients with gastrointestinal cancer].

A total of 237 patients were examined: 127 with gastric cancer and 110 with colonic cancer, 99 women and 138 men, mean age 57.5 years. Erythrocyte deformability and aggregation were studied by original methods.

[Microcirculation in gastrointestinal cancer and some possibilities of its correction].

Microcirculation and blood rheology were studied in 348 patients with tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Such disorders as increased blood and plasma viscosity, aggregates of erythrocytes and their increased stability of shape were recorded in conjunction with hypo- and dysproteinemia, endogenous intoxication syndrome and microvascular disturbances. Microcirculation significantly improved and endoxemia was alleviated following photomodification of the blood by use of helium-neon laser radiation and application of an original procedure of infusion.

[Blood rheology in patients with gastric cancer].

Blood rheology was examined in 163 patients with gastric cancer. The 4th stage of the disease was detected in 51 of them. The following changes of blood rheology were found: changes of a blood and plasma viscosity and red blood cells hyperaggregation.