[Surface relief of peripheral blood erythrocytes in patient with schizophrenia (scanning electron microscopy data)]. / Osobennosti poverkhnostnogo rel'efa éritritsitov perifericheskoi krovi u bol'nykh shizofreniei (po dannym skaniruiushchei élektronnoi mikroskopii).

Surface relief and configuration of peripheral blood erythrocytes were studied under a scanning electron microscope in 42 patients with paranoid schizophrenia during the active phase and remission. Control group consisted of 30 mentally and somatically healthy donors. The count of functionally intact biconcave discocytes was appreciably (p < 0.001) decreased and the incidence of transitory, prehemolytical, and degenerative forms of erythrocytes increased in the patients. Morphological restructuring of the erythrocyte population was universal in the patients with different duration of the schizophrenic process.

[Morphological characteristics of peripheral blood erythrocytes in patients with disseminated atherosclerosis]. / Morfologicheskie osobennosti éritrotsitov perifericheskoi krovi u bol'nykh s rasprostranennym aterosklerozom.

Studies of surface architectonics of erythrocytes in 20 patients with atherosclerotic involvement of the lower limb arteries by scanning electron microscopy showed clear-cut redistribution of the erythrocyte population, which depended on the cell morphology, with a tendency to a decrease in the count of discocytes and an increase in the counts of echinocytes, spherocytes, stomatocytes, and degeneratively changed erythrocytes.