Treatment of essential hypertension does not normalize capillary rarefaction

Clinics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 613-618

  Penna, Guilherme Loures De Araújo ^a   Garbero, Rodrigo De Freitas ^a   Neves, Mario Fritsch ^a   Oigman, Wille ^a   Bottino, Daniel Alexandre ^a   Bouskela, Eliete ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti hypertensive drugs; Microcirculation; Microvascular dysfunction; Videocapillaroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NAIL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; DIURETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 54349102554     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1807-59322008000500008     Document Type: Article

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