Atomic force microscopy method in the study of platelets of patients with end-stage of chronic heart failure

Abstract

Atomic force microscopy was used to estimate the intravascular platelet activation and determine local elastic modulus, adhesion and stiffness of the platelets membrane in patients with end-stage of chronic heart failure with heart ventricle implantation before surgery and intrasurgical: before the heparin injection, after the heparin injection and after neutralization of heparin with protamine.

Keywords

• atomic force microscopy
• platelets
• end-stage of chronic heart failure