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Erythrocyte deformability in schizophrenic patients
Author(s) -
NAKASHIMA HISASHI,
UEDA KEISHI,
YASUGAWA SETSUKO,
KATSURAGI SYHOICHI,
KIMURA TAKEMI,
MIYAKAWA TAIHEI
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1996.tb02741.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , erythrocyte deformability , psychology , psychiatry , red blood cell
Erythrocyte deformability as a clinical indicator of microcirculatory disturbance was determined in the erythrocyte of 25 schizophrenic patients and of 18 normal controls. Schizophrenic patients had significantly lower erythrocyte deformability than did the normal controls (P < 0.001). This result suggests that microcirculation in schizophrenic patients is disturbed, and that this disturbance might be involved in the pathophysiological genesis of schizophrenia.