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 Alcoholic Liver Damage.- Abnormalities in the Hepatic Sinusoids: Pathological Basis of Self-perpetuation of Liver Cirrhosis.- Observation of Microcirculatory Disorders of the Hemorrhagic Rat Liver by Use of Fluorescence-Stained Gamma Globulins.- 4 Cerebral Ischemia and Hyperemia.- Cerebral Hemoconcentration Following Blood Flow Reduction in the Gerbil.- Plasma and Red Blood Cell in Focal Cerebral Ischemia: Differential Visualization with Double-Fluorescence Technique.- Cerebral Blood Volume Reactivity to Hypercapnia Measured by 11C-Labeled Carboxyhemoglobin and Positron Emission Tomography.- Capillary Density in Stroke Regions of the Living Human Brain.- SPECT Measurements of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow, Blood Volume, and Hematocrit in Stroke.- Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors in Brain Microvessels.- Role of Oxygen Free Radicals in Focal Brain Ischemia.- Microcirculatory and Ionic Responses to Ischemia in the Mongolian Gerbil.- Postischemic Hyperemia.- Remote Hyperemia After Focal Cerebral Ischemia: Disinhibition Mechanism of Remote Hyperemia.- Cerebral Hyperemia and Breakthrough During Hypertension.- Maintenance of Constant Cerebral Blood Volume by Veni-Arterial Reflex.- Bordering Zone Hyperemia and Glucose Metabolism in Experimental Cerebral Ischemia.- 5 Myocardial Ischemia.- Influence of Myocardial Contraction on Coronary Microcirculation: Techniques and Results.- Changes in Coronary Microcirculation in Acute Ischemia.- Flow Characteristics in Poststenotic Regions of the Human Coronary Artery Assessed by 20-MHz 80-Channel Pulsed Doppler Velocimetry.- Coronary Collateral Circulation in Acute and Chronic Myocardial Ischemia.- Granulocyte Capillary Plugging in Myocardial Ischemia.- Nonesterified Fatty Acid Metabolism and Membrane Disorders in Myocardial Ischemia and Reperfusion.- Hemodynamic Factors Influencing Regional Ischemia and Infarction of the Myocardium: Difference Between Right and Left Ventricular Myocardial Infarction.- Chronic Changes in the Canine Myocardium After Coronary Microembolization.- Stenosis of Intramyocardial Small Arteries in Hearts with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Hypertensive Hearts.- 6 Ischemia of Peripheral Tissues.- Microcirculatory Studies on Epidural Spinal Cord Electrical Stimulation in Patients with Severe Lower Limb Ischemia.- Microcirculation of Canine Hindlimbs in Hemorrhagic Hypotension.- Impaired Microcirculation in Patients with Peripheral Vascular Disease: Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Aspects.- Nailfold Capillary Abnormalities in Patients with Connective Tissue Diseases.- The Interaction of Immune Complexes in Microcirculatory Impairment in Patients with Vasculitis.- Decubital Ulcers of Pads Induced by Hyperlipidemia in the Rabbit.- Microangiopathy in Diabetes Mellitus.- Microcirculation in Diabetic Gangrene.- 7 Methodology for Microvascular Disorders.- Regulation of Plasma Membrane Ca-Pump ATPase of Vascular Smooth Muscle by cGMP.- Molecular Regulation of Calcium, Calmodulin-Dependent Myosin Phosphorylation.- Erythrocyte Aggregation Induced by Immunoglobulin G and Related Macromolecules Studied with Rheoscope-Image Analyzer-Computer System.- Blood Pressure in Mesenteric Microvessels of Normotensive and Hypertensive Rats: Application of a Servo-Nulling Micropressure System.- Analysis of Diameter and Flow Velocity Changes in Small Pulmonary Vessels During Regional Alveolar Hypercapnia.- Measuring the Dimensions of a Thin Cylindrical Vessel by Processing Ultrasonic Reflections with an MEM Cepstrum.- Alterations in Membrane Fluidity of Hypertension Determined by an Electron Spin Resonance Method.- Assessment of Systemic and Regional Blood Flows with the Radioactive Microsphere-Reference Sample Method in Rats.- Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Activity in Brain Microvessels of Rats.- Assessment of the Adequacy of Mucosal Oxygenation in Patients with Intraluminally Located Silicone Tonomitors.- Comparative Studies on Microcirculation of the Pancreas in Anesthetized and Conscious Dogs.- Cerebral Microvascular Reserve for Hyperemia.- Correlation of Conjunctival Oxygen Tension with Carotid Artery Blood Flow During Hemorrhagic Hypotension.- Changes in Cerebral Regional Blood Flow and Tissue Oxygen Tension During Hemorrhagic Shock and Post-Cerebral Circulatory Arrest.- A Combined Method for Immunohistochemistry and Autoradiographic Measurement of Focal Cerebral Blood Flow in Investigation of Pathophysiological Roles of Microcirculation in Cerebral Ischemia.- Evaluation of the Behavior of Cerebral Blood Flow and Hemorheological Parameters with Infusions of Hydroxyethyl Starch and Low Molecular Weight Dextran in Normal Baboons.- Evaluation of Blood Flow Velocity Waveforms in Intramyocardial Artery and Vein by Laser Doppler Velocimeter with an Optical Fiber.- Determinants of Myocardial Oxygen Demand: Total Mechanical Energy and Contractility.- Pathophysiology of Acute Embolization of Small Coronary Arteries: Detrimental Effects of Oxygen-Free Radicals.- Author Index.
