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Cardiff University | Professor Valerie O'Donnell

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a swelling in the aorta, the main blood vessel that runs from the heart down through the chest and abdomen. People with AAA are often monitored to see if the swelling gets bigger, when they will need su...

This page describes how your doctor can use an angiogram to look inside your coronary arteries, what happens during and after an angiogram and the risks of having the procedure.

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University of Liverpool | Dr Guozheng Wang

Dr Guozheng Wang and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool are investigating what goes wrong in the circulation of people who are critically ill, for example, those with severe infection or after severe trauma. In critical illness...

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University of Exeter | Dr Maarten Koeners

Dr Maarten Koeners from the University of Bristol wants to better understand the causes and mechanisms of hypertension, or high blood pressure, so we can develop more effective treatments. High blood pressure is a risk factor for several...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Paola Caruso

Dr Paola Caruso at the University of Cambridge will study changes in microRNAs in the endothelial cells of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PAH is characterized by high blood pressure in the lungs. Although the precise c...

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University of Oxford | Professor Kim A Dora

The inner lining cells of the blood vessel, called endothelial cells, acts as a barrier that controls the movement of fluid (including water) and other molecules from the blood and across the vessel wall. To maintain blood pressure and flow...

We’ve been funding research to understand the causes of vascular dementia to better prevent and treat it.

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University of Cambridge | Professor James Huntington

Professor James Huntington at the University of Cambridge is studying new ways to treat thrombosis, where blood clots form when they shouldn’t, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Blood needs to clot rapidly to protect us after inj...

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University of Leeds | Professor Robert Ariens

Thrombosis occurs when a clot forms in a blood vessels and prevents the blood supply from reaching the tissues supplied by that vessel. Clots are primarily made up of platelets embedded in a network of fibres made of a protein called fibrin...