Kidney failure-related excess mortality during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: a nation-wide, population-based analysis by Zhenhu Chen, Pingping Jia, Di Xie, Jingyu Xie, Juan Liu, Wangnan Cao, Lefei Han, Jinjun Ran, Shengzhi Sun, Shi Zhao, Yang Ge, Leonardo Martinez, Xin Chen, Peihua Cao

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High Prevalence of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Parkinson’s Disease: A Questionnaire-Based Study by Tetsuya Maeda, Ken Nagata, Yuichi Satoh, Takashi Yamazaki, Daiki Takano

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Inraoperative and Histological Visualization of Disrupted Vulnerable Plaques following Diagnostic Angiography of Moderate Carotid Stenosis by Tatsushi Mutoh, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Akifumi Suzuki, Nobuyuki Yasui

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EFFICIENT RETINAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY U-NET FOR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION DIAGNOSIS by S Sujatha, Pramod Pandey, D Gnana Rajesh

“…An accurate segmentation of blood vessels is essential for successful intervention and control of MAD. …”
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Insight on the complete process of photoacoustic generation and propagation of cerebrovascular in brain via multi-physics coupling method by Shangkun Hou, Anzhi Lv, Jiabin Lin, Bokang You, Shuaixin Huang, Xianlin Song

“…The light energy absorbed by the gray matter and blood vessels was used as a heat source, and the biological heat transfer module of COMSOL Multiphysics was used to describe the instantaneous temperature rise of gray matter and blood vessels. …”
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Rat perivascular adipose tissue microvasculature revealed by tissue clearing by Stephanie W. Watts, Emma Flood, Brian D. Gulbransen, William F. Jackson

“…Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) surrounds the majority of blood vessels and plays diverse roles in vascular and metabolic functions. …”
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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Cardiac Patients with Overweight and Obesity by I. V. Logacheva, T. A. Ryazanova, V. R. Makarova, O. V. Surnina

“…In this research, we set out to study organic changes in the heart and blood vessels of obese men suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) combined with cardiac pathology in the metabolically unhealthy phenotype (MUHP). …”
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Effect of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Burn Healing in Granulation Tissue Formation in Diabetic Rats by Gusti Revilla, Deddy Saputra, Dini Nurhasanah

“…Statistical analysis showed a significant increase in lymphocytes, macrophages, fibroblasts and new blood vessels. Conclusion: Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells can increase the formation of granulation tissue by increasing the number of macrophages, fibroblasts and new blood vessels in diabetic rats. …”
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Vascular Endothelium at the Molecular Level: From Fundamental Knowledge Toward Medical Implementation by Vladimir P. Shirinsky

“…The concept of multiple physiologic roles played by a single layer of endothelium on the intimal face of blood vessels started gaining recognition in the 1960s [...]…”
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Computer-tomography features of hemodynamics in hepatocellular carcinoma foci depend on the stage of histological differentiation by U. N. Tumanova, N. I. Yashina, Ye. A. Dubova, G. G. Karmazanovsky, A. I. Schegolev

“…The morphometric analysis of HCC blood vessels was carried out in immunehistochemical specimens stained for CD34 and CD105.Results. …”
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Unsupervised domain adaptation teacher–student network for retinal vessel segmentation via full-resolution refined model by Kejuan Yue, Lixin Zhan, Zheng Wang

“…Abstract Retinal blood vessels are the only blood vessels in the human body that can be observed non-invasively. …”
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A Review on Recent Developments for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy by Javeria Amin, Muhammad Sharif, Mussarat Yasmin

“…Manual inspection of fundus images to check morphological changes in microaneurysms, exudates, blood vessels, hemorrhages, and macula is a very time-consuming and tedious work. …”
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Representing unsegmented vessels using available vascular data for bioheat transfer simulation by Rohan Amare, Amir A. Bahadori, Amir A. Bahadori, Steven Eckels, Steven Eckels

“…Due to the dimensional scale of blood vessels, not all vessels are captured in a given voxel resolution, leading to discontinuous blood vessels in the segmentation. …”
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Asymptomatic Familial Multiple Cerebral Cavernous Malformation in a 73-Year-Old Woman by Klenam Dzefi-Tettey, Emmanuel Kobina Mesi Edzie, Philip Narteh Gorleku, Henry Kusodzi, Abdul Raman Asemah

“…Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are dilated blood vessels which can develop sporadically or in familial form and are the commonest malformations of blood vessels in the spinal cord and brain. …”
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The Involvement of Angiotensin Type 1 and Type 2 Receptors in Estrogen-Induced Cell Proliferation and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression in the Rat Anterior Pituitary by Hanna Lawnicka, Dorota Ptasinska-Wnuk, Slawomir Mucha, Jolanta Kunert-Radek, Marek Pawlikowski, Henryk Stepien

“…Treatment with DES increased the number of PCNA-positive cells, VEGF-positive cells, and VEGF-positive blood vessels in pituitary. Stimulatory effect of estrogen on cell proliferation and VEGF expression in blood vessels was attenuated by losartan, PD123319, and captopril. …”
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APPARATUS REALIZATION OF BIOMECHANICAL DIAGNOSTICS OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM BASED ON OSCILLOMETRY by V. V. Shevtsov, S. V. Shilko, M. V. Borisenko, Yu. G. Kuzminsky

“…The apparatus requirements and preliminary results of development of special program and apparatus system «SPAS» for heart and blood vessels diagnostics by oscillometry method have been described. …”
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Penile Livedoid Vasculopathy: First Reported Case by Ahmad Hallak, William Bennett, Mohammed Adib Tanbir, Supriya R. Donthamsetty, Bethaney Vincent

“…The pathogenesis is speculated to involve increasing coagulation or impaired thrombolysis leading to the occlusion of dermal blood vessels with fibrin thrombi. Livedoid vasculopathy is known to primarily affect the lower extremities. …”
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Variations of Gastrocolic Trunk of Henle and Its Significance in Gastrocolic Surgery by Yuan Gao, Yun Lu

“…Due to the increasing incidence of gastrointestinal (GI) tumors, more and more importance is attached to radical resection and patients’ survival, which requires adequate extent of resection and radical lymph node dissection. Blood vessels around the gastrointestinal tract, as anatomical landmarks for tumor resection and lymph node dissection, play a key role in the successful surgery and curative treatment of gastrointestinal tumors. …”
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Localisation of Lactate Transporters in Rat and Rabbit Placentae by Nigel P. Moore, Catherine A. Picut, Jeffrey H. Charlap

“…In the rabbit, staining for MCT1 was associated with blood vessels containing nucleated red blood cells while staining for MCT4 was associated with vessels containing enucleated red blood cells. …”
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Vulvar Cavernous Hemangioma: Case Report by Cüneyt Eftal Taner, İlkan Kayar, Aslı İris, Demet Aydoğan Kırmızı, Yasemin Göklü, Rıfat Göklü, Duygu Ayaz

“…Hemangiomas are benign tumors of the blood vessels. Usually they are asymptomatic and may be quite small. …”
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