METHOD FOR DETECTING LEVELS OF OVERALL VISCOSITY OF A SAMPLE OF WHOLE BLOOD

摘要

Method for detecting levels of viscosity of a sample of whole blood, comprising the steps of providing a curve of the kinetics of optical density of the sample of whole blood, said curve comprising a first point (b) having a value of optical density and a point (c) of minimum value of said optical density; determining the value of the drop between the value of optical density in correspondence with the point (b) and the minimum value of optical density in correspondence with the point (c); obtaining information, based on the value of drop, on the value of viscosity of said sample of whole blood, wherein a low value of the drop of optical density corresponds to a higher level of viscosity of the sample of blood and a high value of the drop corresponds to a lower level of viscosity of the sample of blood.