to investigate the relationship between the presence of myocardial fibrosis (scarring) and small intramural coronary arteriole dysplasia (SICAD). Autopsy studies have revealed a high prevalence of ...

Being the most visible of our organs, the skin also offers us a view into the body tissues that it protects. So don't think ...

These three areas have glabrous skin (without hair and glands) and what is known as arteriovenous anastomosis, small blood vessels that directly connect an arteriole with a venule without the blood ...

A reduction in renal perfusion normally results in dilatation of the glomerular afferent arteriole and constriction of the glomerular efferent arteriole so that glomerular capillary hydrostatic ...

Arterioles open and close to control the loss of heat from the body’s surface. But sometimes they can get stuck open – and a spider-like pattern will appear. The open arteriole is the spider’s body, ...

Hypotension is not a specific side effect with ACE inhibitors; rather, it is a broadening of the physiologic action of these drugs that occurs most commonly when a patient becomes volume contracted.