Microvascular damage and dysfunction represent the earliest morphological and functional markers of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a progressive connective tissue disease characterized by vascular ...

Diabetic retinopathy develops through complex microvascular damage driven by chronic hyperglycemia, yet traditional risk factors such as disease duration or glycemic control explain only part of ...

The presence of microvascular disease anywhere in the body significantly increases the risk for leg amputation in ensuing decade, results of a large study of US veterans shows. Additionally, in ...

We conducted postmortem high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (magnetic resonance microscopy) of the brains of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) (median age, 50 years) and ...

The New York University School of Medicine and collaborators found that capillary-associated macrophages in skin decline with age, weakening microvascular repair and reducing perfusion in mice, with ...

Patti Hutton of Liberty Township with Dr. Odayme Quesada, medical director of the Women's Heart Center at The Christ Hospital. Patti Hutton spent 15 years dealing with severe stabbing pain in her ...

Garden-variety exercise stress testing can be used in patients who have angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) to uncover the presence of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), new ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Doctors know how to spot large artery blockages when someone is experiencing heart attack symptoms, but often not those in the smaller heart ...

Microvascular inflammation in kidney transplants without overt antibody-mediated rejection is nonetheless linked with worse graft survival compared with nonrejection cases. Kidney allografts that ...

Using a system for primary care management of patients with diabetes may reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and retinopathy over a 3-year period. A parallel pre-post observational ...