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In patients with chronic arterial insufficiency of the legs pentoxyphyllin drugs not change blood viscosity. By contrast, photohemotherapy with blue light decreased and normalized blood viscosity in 64% patients.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 126, No. 11, pp. 579–580, November, 1998
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Karandashov, V.I., Petukhov, E.B. & Zrodnikov, V.S. Effects of pentoxyphyllin drugs and UV photohemotherapy on blood viscosity. Bull Exp Biol Med 126, 1155–1156 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447261
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447261