Greater than 50% of patients successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest have evidence of neurological disability. Numerous studies in children and adults, as well as in animal models have demonstrated that cerebral blood flow (CBF) is impaired after cardiac arrest. Stages of cerebral perfusion post-resuscitation include early hyperemia, followed by hypoperfusion, and finally either resolutio...

Microcirculation lesion is a common symptom of chronic liver diseases in the form of vasculature deformation and circulation alteration. In acute to chronic liver diseases such as biliary atresia, microcirculation lesion can have an early onset. Detection of microcirculation lesion is meaningful for studying the progression of liver disease. We have combined wide-field fluorescence microscopy a...

MARY P. WEIDEMAN (editor), Microcirculation, Stroudsburg, Penn., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1974, 4to, pp. xi, 429, illus., £13.90. The third volume in this useful series "Benchmark Papers in Human Physiology" of anthologies of classical contributions to human physiology, this book is arranged like its predecessors with facsimile reprints of extracts from books and articles,grouped in chronolog...

The microcirculation, like all physiological systems undergoes modifications during the course of pregnancy. These changes aid the adaption to the new anatomical and physiological environment of pregnancy and ensure adequate oxygen supply to the fetus. Even though the microcirculation is believed to be involved in major pregnancy related pathologies, it remains poorly understood. The availabili...

We developed a portable needle-probe videomicroscope with a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera to visualize the subendocardial microcirculation. In 12 open-chest anesthetized pigs, the sheathed needle probe with a doughnut-shaped balloon and a microtube for flushing away the intervening blood was introduced into the left ventricle through an incision in the left atrial appendage via the mitral ...

1Department of Intensive Care, CHU-Charleroi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 92, Boulevard Janson, 6000 Charleroi, Belgium 2Experimental Medicine Laboratory, CHU-Charleroi, 6110 Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium 3Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 4Department of Translational Physiology, Academic Medical ...

The properties of erythrocytes strongly determine the course entire microcirculation and metabolism in body. Elucidation state students who had long-term low physical fitness began to regularly perform feasible exercises can track progress optimization erythrocyte parameters that are significant for microcirculation. study involved 42 male activity throughout their future life regular athletics...

Microvascular damage is frequently observed in the setting of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Imaging of the microcirculation is playing an increasingly important role in the risk stratification of patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes, furthering our understanding about coronary microcirculatory patho-physiology in this setting. Of the available imaging methods, cardiac magnetic re...