The Microcirculation in Health and Critical Disease

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-170

  den Uil, Corstian A ^a,b,c   Klijn, E ^a,b,c   Lagrand, W K ^a,b,c   Brugts, J J ^a,b,c   Ince, C ^a,b,c   Spronk, P E ^a,b,c   Simoons, M L ^a,b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTERIOLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULAR ISCHEMIA; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTRAL IMAGING; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIDE STREAM DARK FIELD IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; VEINS;

EID: 50849095839     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2008.07.002     Document Type: Review

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