Vascular disease is any abnormal condition of the blood vessels (arteries and veins). The body uses blood vessels to circulate blood through itself. Problems along this vast network can cause severe disability and death.Vascular diseases outside t ...
Internists are physicians specializing in internal medicine, a discipline focused on the care of adults emphasizing use of the best medical science available in caring for patients in the context of thoughtful, meaningful doctor-patient relationsh ...
It is clinical condition which occurs due to obstacles in the supply of blood to the brain which results in to minor stroke. It is second common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD) in aged person. Risk factor of this di ...
highly trained medical team will work together to provide you with the best possible care. This team may include the following health care professionals: Radiation oncologist. This type of doctor specializes i ...
Myocardial infarction is a medical term related to heart attack. Acute myocardial infarction is the major cause of death and disability worldwide, with an ongoing increase in incidence every year. Blood clot is the major reason for the occurrence ...
Systems biology is increasingly popular, but to many biologists it remains unclear what this new discipline actually encompasses. This brief personal perspective starts by outlining the asthetic qualities that motivate systems biologists, discusse ...
A variety of factors interact to regulate vascular tone and thereby control blood flow to the regional circulations. The influx of calcium into vascular smooth muscle initiates contraction by binding to calmodulin and stimulating myosin light chai ...
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) uses many precisely focused radiation beams to treat tumors and other problems in the brain, neck, lungs, liver, spine and other parts of the body. It is not surgery in the traditional sense because there& ...
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. We do not yet know what causes MIS-C. How ...
A thin layer of cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels is called endothelium. Endothelial cells perform many functions such as barrier function, blot clot formation, formation of new blood vessels and blood pressu ...
Pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) is a broad term including any condition that affects the blood vessels within the lungs. These vessels take blood that is depleted of oxygen to the lungs from the right side of the heart. Deoxygenated blood travels ...
Behavior analysis—the science of adaptive behavior—focuses on behavior as a subject matter in its own right, not as an index of cognitive events, and is, thus, not dualistic. Behavior analysis incorporates several laws of learning disc ...
Your lungs are 2 sponge-like organs in your chest. Your right lung has 3 sections, called lobes. Your left lung has 2 lobes. The left lung is smaller because the heart takes up more room on that side of the body. Wh ...
In a clinical trial, participants receive specific interventions according to the research plan or protocol created by the investigators. These interventions may be medical products, such as drugs or devices; procedures; or changes to participants ...
A prosthetic device is any device that helps replace, correct, or support a body part or function of a body part. Examples of these devices include: Dentures, which help replace missing teeth and take over the function of chewing.Chances are you k ...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA or triple A) is a localized enlargement of the abdominal aorta such that the diameter is greater than 3 cm or more than 50% larger than normal. They usually cause no symptoms, excep ...
Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are uncommon and describe a localized dilatation of a coronary artery segment more than 1.5-fold compared with adjacent normal segments. The incidence of CAAs varies from 0.3 to 5.3%. Ever since the dawn of the int ...
This condition is mainly observed in cases of AIDS where the immune system starts to recover but suddenly responds to a previous infection due to which there is an extreme inflammatory response that makes the infection worse. The CD4 T-cells are s ...
It is clinical condition which is characterized by thickening of ventricular walls in the heart. Mostly left ventricular hypertrophy is common. Common cause of ventricular hypertrophy is hypertension, aortic valve stenosis, Hypertrophic cardiomyop ...
Hypotension is defined as blood pressure is less compared to normal. Supply of blood to brain, heart and some parts of the body are low. Symptoms are feeling tired, dizziness and fainting. Blood pressure is normal when it in-between 90/60 mm/Hg an ...