Microcirculation in Circulatory Disorders [Paperback]

1 Recent Progress in Microcirculatory Disorders.- Microcirculation in Health and Disease.- Microvascular Flow Disturbances: Rheological Aspects.- Microvascular Regulation: Normal Function and Disturbance in Disease.- Oxygen Delivery and Microcirculation in the Brain.- Microvascular Permeability: Its Disturbance in Disease.- Microcirculation Dysfunction in an Environment of Weightlessness.- 2 Multiple Organ Failure.- How Hyperoxemia May Lead to Ischemia in Multiple Organs and Possibly to Organ Failure.- Multiple Organ Failure in Low Cardiac Output Syndrome After Cardiac Surgery.- Deteriorating Defense Mechanism for Bacterial Infection and High Incidence of Endotoxemia in Surgical Patients Developing MOF.- Prediction and Diagnosis of Low Cardiac Output Syndrome After Open-Heart Surgery: An Echocardiographic Study.- The Effect of Multiple Organ Failure on the Regulation of the Circulation with Special Reference to the Microcirculation.- Hemorheological and Coagulofibrinolytic Aspects in Multiple Organ Failure After Open Heart Surgery.- Organ Failure and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.- Microrheological Aspects: Their Crucial Role in Multiple Organ Failure.- Histopathological Study of Multiple Organ Failure Following Open Heart Surgery.- Multiple Organ Failure: Clinical Implications to Macro- and Microcirculation.- 3 Gastroenterological Disorders.- Structural Alterations of Mucosal Microvascular System in Human Chronic Gastritis.- Chemical Mediators in Ethanol-Induced Increased Jejunal Microvascular Permeability.- Gastric Microvascular Effects of the Pro-ulcerogenic Mediator PAF-Acether.- Gastric Microcirculatory Changes Associated with Physicochemical and Ionic Mediators.- Metabolic and Myogenic Control of Gastric Mucosal Blood Flow.- Leukocyte Adherence in Hepatic Microcirculation in Ischemia Reperfusion.- Role of the Hepatic Microcirculation in the Pathogenesis and Development of Alcoholic Liver Disease: Possible Involvement of Hyper-catecholaminemia in Alcohl#g