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Is there an equivalent test for serum viscosity in sickle cell disease?

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Hematology · New York Blood Center
  1. I would not typically order serum viscosity outside of the setting of paraproteinemia.
  2. In that setting, I still think serum viscosity is useful, especially as opposed to plasma viscosity, which might be elevated in a sickle cell patient due to the acute phase reactant fibrinogen.
  3. It is true also th...

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