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Hyperemia

Known as: Hyperemias, Hyperemia [Disease/Finding], engorgement 
The presence of an increased amount of blood in a body part or an organ leading to congestion or engorgement of blood vessels. Hyperemia can be due… Expand
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Active HyperemiaBloodshot eyeBlushingBreast engorgement
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Anemia, Sickle CellBlood CirculationErythemaIn Blood
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Broader (3)

Autonomic nervous system disordersCongestioncirculatory disorders

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Pericytes in capillaries are contractile in vivo, but arterioles mediate functional hyperemia in the mouse brain
Modern functional imaging techniques of the brain measure local hemodynamic responses evoked by neuronal activity. Capillary… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Importance of venous congestion for worsening of renal function in advanced decompensated heart failure.
OBJECTIVES To determine whether venous congestion, rather than impairment of cardiac output, is primarily associated with the… Expand
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Neuron-to-astrocyte signaling is central to the dynamic control of brain microcirculation
The cellular mechanisms underlying functional hyperemia—the coupling of neuronal activation to cerebral blood vessel responses… Expand
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The Monro–Kellie hypothesis
More than two centuries ago, Alexander Monro applied some of the principles of physics to the intracranial contents and for the… Expand
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Relationship of MRI delayed contrast enhancement to irreversible injury, infarct age, and contractile function.
BACKGROUND Contrast MRI enhancement patterns in several pathophysiologies resulting from ischemic myocardial injury are… Expand
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Non-invasive detection of endothelial dysfunction in children and adults at risk of atherosclerosis
Endothelial dysfunction is an early event in experimental studies of atherogenesis, preceding formation of plaques. We have… Expand
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Maximal perfusion of skeletal muscle in man.
Five subjects exercised with the knee extensor of one limb at work loads ranging from 10 to 60 W. Measurements of pulmonary… Expand
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Calcitonin gene-related peptide is a potent vasodilator
A novel peptide, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), has been predicted to result from alternative processing of the primary… Expand
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Focal hyperemia followed by spreading oligemia and impaired activation of rCBF in classic migraine
Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured in 254 areas of a hemisphere with the xenon 133 intraarterial injection method… Expand
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Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Physiologic basis for assessing critical coronary stenosis. Instantaneous flow response and regional distribution during coronary hyperemia as measures of coronary flow reserve.
Abstract Quantitative hemodynamic assessment of coronary stenosis has not been previously reported. Resting coronary blood flow… Expand
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