The short answer is, mostly. Vasodilation, or the widening of blood vessels, happens naturally in your body when an increase in blood flow to tissues in your body is needed. It’s a normal process but ...

These insights represent the first characterization of risk factors for respiratory failure–related hospitalization among patients with sarcoidosis‐associated pulmonary hypertension (SAPH). Newly ...

Early vasodilator therapy, even when aggressive, does little to improve survival or other clinical outcomes for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (HF), suggests only the latest randomized ...

Barcelona, Spain - New data published this week question the role of vasodilators in patients with asymptomatic, chronic, severe aortic regurgitation [1]. In the randomized study, published in the ...

Many recent studies have focused on the effects of vasodilating treatment in previously untreated patients with EH; however, despite a sizeable residual cardiovascular risk in patients receiving ...

Magnesium sulfate may prevent eclampsia by reducing cerebral vasoconstriction and ischemia. Nimodipine is a calcium-channel blocker with specific cerebral vasodilator activity. Our objective was to ...

An EEG study shows chocolate can increase brain characteristics of attention and significantly affect blood pressure levels. Historically, chocolate has been recognized as a vasodilator, meaning that ...

In idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the trajectory of declining lung function and clinical worsening was less drastic with the use of inhaled treprostinil (Tyvaso), the placebo-controlled TETON-2 ...