Abstract Dogs placed on a high-fat diet develop obesity and hypertension associated with marked sodium retention that is due to increased tubular reabsorption. Previous studies showed that renal ...

Usually SVD is diagnosed according to clinical or magnetic resonance imaging criteria and without directly visualizing the microvasculature. Because of their size, small vessels, including small ...

Central (aortic or subclavian), brachial, radial and femoral pressure pulses were recorded simultaneously in 12 healthy subjects during conditions of rest, exercise and 70 degree head-up tilt.

Figure. Angiosomes of the lower extremity. The foot and ankle can be divided into 6 territories called angiosomes, based on the artery supplying the given territories. This concept can aid in ...

The renal excretion of sodium and water was studied in 10 hypertensive subjects following an oral sustained 20 ml/kg water load. The study was performed under conditions controlled for sodium content ...

Casts were made of the vascular lumen of 20 successive extremities amputated for gangrene. Half of the patients were diabetic. All nondiabetics had arteriosclerotic vascular disease plus acute ...

Although diuretic therapy appears to improve the exercise capacity of patients with moderately impaired cardiac function, the hemodynamic basis for this improvement is not clear. It is also unknown to ...

Fourteen hearts with tricuspid atresia were reviewed at autopsy. The study included examples of normally related great arteries and of transposition of the great arteries; instances of pulmonary ...