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Changes in erythrocyte volume and shape in pregnancy
Author(s) -
BOLTON F. G.,
STREET MARION J.,
PACE A. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1982.tb04657.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , early pregnancy factor , obstetrics , medicine , volume (thermodynamics) , gestation , biology , physics , thermodynamics , genetics
Summary. Erythrocyte measurements were made in groups of women in pregnancy and the early puerperium and were compared with those of non‐pregnant women. The mean cell volume rises in pregnancy and this persists in the early puerperium, although declining, while the erythrocyte becomes more spherical with a decreasing diameter and increasing thickness. The diameter and thickness changes revert to the non‐pregnant values by the early puerperium.