Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a coronary artery disease affecting 50% of heart transplant (HTx) recipients, and it is the major cause of graft loss. CAV is driven by the interplay of ...

Objectives High levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a key angiogenic factor, are present in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), but its role in the pathogenesis of fibrosis and ...

While diagnostic criteria for typical multiple sclerosis (MS) perform well in people ages 18 to 50, differential diagnoses in ...

The VSMC can undergo a proliferative response that underlies the development of in-stent restenosis, bypass graft occlusion and transplant vasculopathy. Although the benefit/risk of therapeutic ...

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the role of Humphrey Matrix threshold testing in the detection of early functional retinal impairment in subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) ...

The investigators retrospectively evaluated 126 consecutive treatment-naïve nAMD patients (126 eyes) who received a loading ...

Scientists have identified a protein in cells that spurs the release of infection-fighting molecules. The protein, whose role in the immune system had not previously been suspected, provides a ...

The field of cardio-oncology has expanded over the past 2 decades to address the ever-increasing issues related to cardiovascular disease in patients with cancer and survivors. There is increasing ...

Scientists have identified a key component to launching immune activity – and overactivity. The researchers identified a ...

What if treating autoimmune diseases was as simple as regulating the acidity levels of parts of patients' cells? Genetic screening may have unlocked a path for treating the severe inflammation ...

What if treating autoimmune diseases was as simple as regulating the acidity levels of parts of patients’ cells? New research ...