TY  - CHAP
AU  - Indranil Biswas
AU  - Gausal A. Khan
ED  - Kaneez Fatima Shad
ED  - Seyed Soheil Saeedi Saravi
ED  - Nazar Luqman Bilgrami
Y1  - 2019-11-04
PY  - 2019
T1  - Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Diseases
N2  - Microcirculation is key to providing enough nutrition and oxygen from head to toe. This is possible only through an extensive network of blood vessels spread around the body. Effect of microcirculation abnormalities stretch beyond one’s comprehension. The effects could be felt at any age, from the foetal life to the adulthood. The chapters present in this book describe how these abnormalities could lead to diseases such as atherosclerosis, thrombosis, diabetes, hypertension. Disorders of microcirculation could be related to the structural and/or functional damage to the inner lining of the blood vessels. Early identification of these disorders could benefit many ailments including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke.
BT  - Basic and Clinical Understanding of Microcirculation
SP  - Ch. 5
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89365
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.89365
SN  - 978-1-78985-552-4
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-26
ER  -