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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2020

Rapid determination of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) by an electrically driven blood droplet biosensor.

Sumit Kumar, Rishi Ram, Arnab Sarkar, Sunando DasGupta, Suman Chakraborty

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sumit KumarAdvanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6027-1070
Rishi RamDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India.
Sunando DasGupta
Suman ChakrabortyORCID 0000-0002-5454-9766
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · INIndian Institute of Technology BHU · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In healthcare practice, the sedimentation rate of red blood cells (erythrocytes) is a widely used clinical parameter for screening of several ailments such as stroke, infectious diseases, and malignancy. In a traditional pathological setting, the total time taken for evaluating this parameter varies typically from 1 to 2 h. Furthermore, the volume of human blood to be drawn for each test, following a gold standard laboratory technique (alternatively known as the Westergren method), varies from 4 to 5 ml. Circumventing the above constraints, here we propose a rapid (∼1 min) and highly energy efficient method for the simultaneous determination of hematocrit and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) on a microfluidic chip, deploying electrically driven spreading of a tiny drop of blood sample (∼8

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PMID33312329
PMCPMC7710385
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