Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

anti itching cream or pill

Is there a product to prevent itching due to polycythemia vera?

by Guest over a year ago

quiry about health of cell membranes

hi could u tell me what factors affect health of a cel membrane and why...

by Guest over a year ago

Had a dissection of the main left artery

I had a dissection of the main left artery in my heartl. It felt like a heart attack but the artery is damaged not clogged. I want to know is there a normal life for me down the road or is my heart always going to be a risk of breaking again

by kathi over a year ago

Estimating amount of lipopolysaccharides

how to estimate the amount of lps present in the sample?

by janardhan77256 over a year ago

Prostacyclin and Raynaud

Answered by a doctor

I have Raynaud’s phenomenon and am considering treatments at the moment, because I am feeling that it is getting out of control. Several people have told me that prostacyclin is a good treatment. Can you tell me more about this and how it works? Presumably this is a drug to widen the blood...

by portie1304180851 over a year ago

illness with a lowgrade fever

I have burning in my right ear,back of head and neck. With a lowgrade fever. When on antibioitics it helps.When the antibiotic is gone, my symptoms come back. They are eposodic and when it happens my blood pressure gets elevated. I am very fatigued and ger bad headaches, with right eye pain, and...

by Guest over a year ago

White Blood Cell Count

Answered by a doctor

hi i havent' had blood work done for 2 years. my fiance convinced me to get it done becuase i haven't been feeling great. i've suffered for past year or so with dizziness occassionally headaches and blurred vision as of late getting increasingly worse. i assumed it would be diabetes. when i got...

by sunshine00765481 over a year ago

High White Blood Count & High thyroid

Answered by a doctor

Hi folks, I've been reading this forum for several weeks now as I've not been feeling too well. Around 4 weeks ago I started to have pains in my neck - they were at the side, under my chin and above my adams apple was tender to the touch. They still are. Last week I woke up with a terrible...

by Tom Joad over a year ago

Researchers Discovered Lack Of Vital Component In Stored Blood

Every day millions of people receive stored blood during transfusions and recent research came to finding that this blood may lack a component which is of great importance because it delivers oxygen to the tissues. This component, nitric oxide helps to keep blood vessels open seems to break down as...

by Laylah over a year ago

Test results- high white blood cell count?

Answered by a doctor

Does anyone know what these tests mean? WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT 11.3 4.0 - 10.0 thou/cu mm RBC 4.85 4.0 - 5.2 mill/cu mm Hemoglobin 14.6 12.0 - 16.0 g/dL Hematocrit 43.3 35.0 - 45.0 % MCV 89.3 78.0 - 100.0 cu micron MCH 30.2 26 - 34 pg MCHC 33.8 31 - 37 g/dL CHCM 33.1 32.0 - 38.0 g/dL RDW 13.1...

by sweetgirl3192 over a year ago