Oxygen-15-water PET assessment of muscular blood flow in peripheral...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......nutritive muscular blood flow in patients with peripheral vascular...ml/min/ml). In PVD patients, blood flow increased by 100...nutritive skeletal muscle blood flow for research and clinical applications in patients with PVD. Key Words...

Diuretic may help increase brain blood flow in cocaine addicts.

M2 Presswire;  July 8, 2003 ;     482 words ......said increasing blood flow back to normal...and make these patients more responsive...placebo to 49 patients for one month...research unit. Blood flow in the brain...increase cerebral blood flow to treat cocaine dependent patients. Co-authors...

Brain blood flow may hold cues to treat depression

The Hindustan Times;  August 9, 2007 ;     297 words ......shown that cerebral blood flow in depressed patients is lower than in healthy...antidepressant decreased brain blood flow in the patients while electroconvulsive...found that cerebral blood flow increased only in patients whose depression improved...

BLOOD FLOW IN THE EARS OF PATIENTS RECEIVING COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......measured cochlear blood flow (CBF) in 55 patients who received...measuring the blood flow of the bone surrounding...measured CBF in 55 patients who received...and all adult patients received an explanation...The methods for blood flow measurement have...

Blood flow changes in the trapezius muscle and overlying skin following...

Physical Therapy;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the effect of TENS on blood flow has been investigated in...detected an increase in blood flow, and other studies detected...Wikstrom et al, (3) skin blood flow in participants who were...another study, (4) skin blood flow in ischemic tissue was...increased ...

Blood Flow to Brain May Be Clue to Certain Dementias.

PR Newswire;  August 30, 2005 ;     682 words ......showed that the patients with late-onset...lower rate of blood flow to the brain...total cerebral blood flow in the healthy...minute. Cerebral blood flow in the two elderly...younger group. In patients with dementia, average cerebral blood flow was 443 mL ...

Blood flow analyzer could be crucial screen for glaucoma

Ophthalmology Times;  September 15, 2001 ;     532 words ......Paradigm Ocular Blood Flow Analyzer (BFA...pulsatile ocular blood flow and identifies patients with low-tension...pleased with the Blood Flow Analyzer," said...treating glaucoma patients. Because it shows the true blood flow inside the eye, I am able to ...

Stress lowers blood flow to heart in patients with gene variation

The Hindustan Times;  April 16, 2008 ;     411 words ......stress lowers blood flow to the heart in patients with a gene variation...decreases in blood flow to the heart...heart disease patients without it...fourth of the patients experienced mental...stress-induced reduced blood flow to the heart...

Non-Invasive and Real-Time Blood Flow Systems Developed by Biosonix Ltd.

PR Newswire;  November 7, 2000 ;     435 words ......Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Blood flow, the volume of blood flowing...the viability of organs, blood flow is essential to practically all medical disciplines. Blood flow must be taken into account...who treats head trauma patients; by the vascular surgeon...available to ...

Parametric images of blood flow in oncology PET studies using [(15)O]water

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......was used to measure tumor blood flow, which is potentially valuable...regional differences in blood flow and to improve the accuracy...region-of-interest method. Methods: Five patients with renal cell metastases...the reproducibility of the blood flow measurements, multiple ...

Effects of high-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on...

Physical Therapy;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......nerve stimulation on limb blood flow in healthy humans. Phys...Key Words: Regional blood flow, Transcutaneous electric...incompletely understood. In patients with chronic pain and...to increase regional blood flow.[1,2] In contrast, in...to decrease regional blood ...

Tumor Blood Flow Measured by PET Dynamic Imaging of First-Pass ^sup...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......gold standard for measuring blood flow in humans. However, this...used to measure regional blood flow in tumors in the absence...PET scans were obtained in patients being evaluated for tumor...artery in the field of view. Blood flow was computed with a simple 1-compartment ...

Brain blood flow can give antidepressant clue.

The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  June 20, 2002 ;     628 words ......brain for changes in blood flow might tell doctors in...the forehead, in 51 patients with major depression...indirect measure of blood flow, the scientists noted...researchers found. Those patients eventually reported...most were those whose blood flow had previously ...

Blood flow velocity changes in carotid and vertebral arteries with...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......cerebral and extracerebral blood flow in the head. We estimated the effect of SGB on blood flow in the head by measuring the blood flow velocity in cervical...Methods. Seven adult patients with acute or chronic...right and 4 left SGBs). Blood flow velocity in ...

The possible effect of clinical recovery on regional cerebral blood flow...

Southern Medical Journal;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......deficits in cerebral blood flow have been reported...recovery on cerebral blood flow changes in fibromyalgia...assessed cerebral blood flow with a semiquantitative...computed tomography in 14 patients with primary fibromyalgia...Statistically significant blood ...