Background: Congenital analbuminemia (CAA) is characterized by the absence of serum albumin. Typically albumin is the most abundant protein in the circulatory system and provides 80% of the colloid ...

PREVIOUS studies have indicated that in patients with cirrhosis the presence or absence of ascites can be explained by a consideration of hydrostatic and osmotic forces, and a similar analysis can be ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

During World War I, military surgeons discovered that patients die from wound shock because their blood pressure falls catastrophically. William Maddock Bayliss produced experimental shock by bleeding ...