Functional memory disorder (FMD) is characterized by mnestic and attentional deficits without symptoms of mild cognitive impairment or dementia. FMD usually develops in subjects with high psychosocial stress level and is classified to the somatoform disorders. We assessed memory performance (procedural mirror tracing task, declarative visual and verbal memory task) and other cognitive functions...

Results: At baseline, MDA-LDL was inversely correlated with FMD (r=-0.565, p<0.05). MDA-LDL and FMD were improved in both groups (MDA-LDL: E; pre 155.7±73.8mg/dl, post 120.6±46.4mg/dl, p<0.05, R; pre 148.7±48.2mg/dl, post 104.2±28.9mg/dl, p<0.05), (FMD: E; pre 4.9±3.1%, post 7.6±2.5%, p<0.05, R; pre 4.3±1.8%, post 7.6±3.0%, p<0.01). Although the improvement of LDL was better in rosuvastatin gro...

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a group of nonatherosclerotic, noninflammatory diseases of blood vessels with unknown aetiology. In our study, FMD was diagnosed in blood vessels in samples taken from kidneys, liver and lung of broiler chickens. The FMD occurred during rearing in 8 of 108 broiler chickens examined for the effects of intensive rearing on the.internal organs. Histopathological an...

A retrospective review of the multicenter IPSYS CeAD (Italian project on stroke in young adults cervical artery dissection) study was performed from January 2000 to June 2019. Of 1283 patients with spontaneous dissection, mean age 48 years, 545 were women (43%), and 103 (8%) had a diagnosis coexistent cerebrovascular fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). More FMD women. history migraine intracranial a...

We read with interest the study of Loffredo et al. investigating the association of oxi-dative stress and endothelial function in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The authors demonstrated that flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) of the brachial artery was significantly lower in patients with PAD compared with controls, whereas 8-hydroxy-2-deoxy-2-deoxyguanosine (a marker of oxidati...

Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) has become a commonly applied approach for the assessment of vascular function and health, but methods used to calculate FMD differ between studies. For example, the baseline diameter used as a benchmark is sometimes assessed before cuff inflation, whereas others use the diameter during cuff inflation. Therefore, we compared the brachial artery diameter before and d...

BACKGROUND Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a noninflammatory arterial disease that predominantly affects women. The arterial manifestations may include beading, stenosis, aneurysm, dissection, or tortuosity. OBJECTIVES This study compared the frequency, location, and outcomes of FMD patients with aneurysm and/or dissection to those of patients without. METHODS The U.S. Registry for FMD inv...

Background. Blocking nitric oxide (NO) and vasodilator prostanoids (PN) does not consistently reduce flow-mediated dilation (FMD) in young adults. The impact of aging on the contribution of NO and PG to FMD is unknown. Methods. FMD was measured in older adults (n = 10, 65 ± 3 y) after arterial infusion of saline, N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA), and ketorolac + L-NMMA. Data were compared to...

We aimed to clarify the usefulness of measuring the flow mediated dilatation (FMD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without and with coronary heart disease (CHD). The FMD was measured in 480 patients with type 2 diabetes and in 240 nondiabetic subjects. The FMD was significantly lower in the subjects with CHD (n = 145, 5.4 ± 3.2%) than in those without CHD (n = 95, 6.9 ± 3.5%) among th...

BACKGROUND Myocardial virus persistence is frequently observed in patients with cardiomyopathy. Endothelial dysfunction in patients with cardiomyopathy is associated with inflammatory immunoresponses in myocardial biopsies. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of myocardial virus persistence on endothelial function. METHODS AND RESULTS In 124 patients with suspected cardiomyopa...