Other Techniques for Neurological Damage Evaluation
The measurement of VMR by TCD has been shown to be a valuable noninvasive instrument for both practical clinical work and pathophysiological research in the field of stroke and cerebrovascular…
Other Methods to Assess Renal Damage
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Enrico Agabiti Rosei and Giuseppe Mancia (eds.)Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension10.1007/978-3-319-15603-3_16 16. Other Methods to Assess Renal Damage Josep Redon1, 2 , Gernot Pichler1 and Fernando Martinez1 (1) Hypertension Unit, Internal Medicine,…
Proteinuria-Microalbuminuria in Renal Damage
Fig. 14.1 Factors related to the prevalence of microalbuminuria in hypertension (see text for explanation) 14.4 Change with Treatment Considering the large intraindividual variability of UAE excretion, assessment of significant…
Other Techniques for the Assessment of Small Artery Damage in Hypertension
Fig. 13.1 Evaluation of small retinal artery morphology by scanning laser Doppler flowmetry and automatic full-field perfusion imaging analysis: example of the program output (Clinica Medica, University of Brescia; Reproduced…
Capillaroscopy
Fig. 12.1 Representative image of videocapillaroscope (Courtesy of DS Medica) It is performed at room temperature after 15–20 min of acclimatization of the patient in a sitting position on both…
Pulse Wave Velocity and Central Blood Pressure
Year of first publication Device Methods Measurement site Regional stiffness 1984a Complior® Mechanotransducer Aorta, cf PWVb 1990a Sphygmocor® Tonometer Aorta, cf PWVb 1991 WallTrack® Echo-tracking Aorta, cf PWVb 1994 QKD…
Echocardiographic Assessment of the Aorta and Coronary Arteries in Hypertensive Patients
Fig. 5.1 Normal size of thoracic aortic segments. The thoracic aorta can be divided into three segments: the ascending aorta that extends from the aortic annulus to the innominate artery…
Alcohol-Mediated Oxidative Stress in the Airway: The Unique Role of Thiol Depletion
(1) Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, 2015 Uppergate Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA (2) Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Center for Developmental Lung Biology, Atlanta, GA, USA (3)…
Alcohol and the Alveolar Epithelium
Fig. 8.1 Morphology and distribution of alveolar epithelial cells. The en face representation of alveolar epithelium shows the relative size and number of type I and type II cells [115]….
Maternal Alcohol Use and the Neonate
27. Bakhireva LN, Savich RD, Raisch DW, Cano S, Annett RD, Leeman L, et al. The feasibility and cost of neonatal screening for prenatal alcohol exposure by measuring phosphatidylethanol in…
