Dependence of the oxygen release intensity from red cells on the degree of their clustering in sludges

Abstract

An efficiency of oxygen release from red cells strongly depends on the regimes of their motion through microvessels. Mathematical model of oxygen transfer taking into account the red cells ability to form intravascular sludges has been constructed and studied. An analytical expression for the dependence of the oxygen release intensity on the size of erythrocyte sludges were derived. The possible significance of the obtained results for the express diagnostics of the red cell’s ability for an oxygen transmission is discussed.