A 3-compartment mechanistic model is proposed to explain the attenuation of the electrocardiographic QRS complexes (↓QRSV) observed in patients with heart failure (HF). This includes the effects of increased intracardiac blood volume and decreased hematocrit due to blood dilution (1st compartment), the heart's alteration in electrogenesis due to possible ischemia or inflammation, leading to myo...

Making use of mathematical model we have attempted to classify the various agents modifying the rat paw edema. In the preceding paper (2) we described a model , which showed fairly good fitness to some selected cases of experimental edema in rats . The model is constructed on an assumption that the swelling volume is the reflection of the dynamic balance between the swelling force evoked by the...

Lowering of interstitial fluid pressure (P(if)) is an important factor that explains the rapid edema formation in acute inflammation in loose connective tissues. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) are pathogenetic in gingivitis. To test if these substances induce lowering of P(if) in rat oral mucos...

BACKGROUND Early pulmonary edema is common after orthotopic liver transplantation. Associated pathogenic mechanisms might involve increased activity of cardiac-inhibitory systems due to increased vasodilator production, mainly nitric oxide (NO). NO is primarily responsible for flow-mediated vasodilatation (FMD). We investigated the incidence of pulmonary edema in liver transplant patients and i...

BACKGROUND The influence of serous retinal detachment (SRD) on retinal sensitivity in patients with branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and macular edema remains unclear. This is despite the frequent co-existence of SRD and cystoid macular edema (CME) in BRVO patients on optical coherence tomography (OCT) and the fact that CME is the most common form of macular edema secondary to BRVO. We inve...

CROSS, CECIL E., P. ANDRE RIEBEN, AND PETER F. SALISBURY. Influence of coronary perfusion and myocardial edema on pressurevolume diugram of left ventricle. Am. J . Physiol. 201(1): I 02-108. 1961. -Pressure-volume diagrams of paced isolated hearts were derived from isovolumic contractions and auxotonic contractions (simultaneous changes of pressure and volume). Coronary perfusion, fluid accumul...

CROSS, CECIL E., P. ANDRE RIEBEN, AND PETER F. SALISBURY. Influence of coronary perfusion and myocardial edema on pressurevolume diugram of left ventricle. Am. J . Physiol. 201(1): I 02-108. 1961. -Pressure-volume diagrams of paced isolated hearts were derived from isovolumic contractions and auxotonic contractions (simultaneous changes of pressure and volume). Coronary perfusion, fluid accumul...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the risks and pattern of evolution of peritumoral brain edema (PTE) after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for asymptomatic intracranial meningiomas. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted on 320 patients (median age 56 years, range 24-87 years) who underwent primary Gamma Knife radiosurgery for asymptomatic meningiomas between 1998 and 2012. The median tumor volu...