Cerebral small vessel disease can be identified using magnetic resonance imaging, and includes white matter hyperintensities, lacunar infarcts, cerebral microbleeds, and brain atrophy. Cerebral small vessel disease and chronic kidney disease share many risk factors, including hypertension. This study aims ...
Angioplasty and surgical bypass are common techniques to treat this disease. In the case of surgical bypass, vascular grafts function to transfer the flow of blood instead of the damaged blood vessel. Vascular grafts are used for the treatment of not only cardiovascular diseases, but also several...
Introduction High prevalence of cardiovascular disease creates a demand for small-diameter vessel grafts used as a bypass for surgical treatment of vascular pathology. However, there are no commercially available vascular prostheses of small diameter (<3 mm), as previous attempts to develop such ...
Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China * Correspondence: liuliyun@icdc.cn (L.L...