How to Use microvascular in a Sentence
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Shortness of breath, fatigue or pain in the jaw, left arm, back or neck may be warning signs of microvascular dysfunction or an imminent heart attack.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
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That's a concern during the pandemic, Wittstein added, because Covid-19 damages the lungs and also causes microvascular function, where the small blood vessels of the body fail to work properly.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
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As Patel writes, the second stage of the latest ear transplant, known as microvascular free tissue transfer, only became popular in the late 1990s.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
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This type of surgery is called microvascular reconstruction surgery.
—Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
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Recently, a study by the National Institutes of Health linked Covid and the body’s inflammatory response to microvascular blood-vessel damage in the brain.
—New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
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According to Goldberg, that higher rate of microvascular dysfunction might help explain why women are more prone to blood vessel constriction when stressed.
—Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
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Scott Baio‘s wife Renee Baio revealed on Saturday that she was diagnosed with microvascular brain disease.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Mar. 2018
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Scott Baio's wife was diagnosed with microvascular brain disease in October 2017, the couple confirmed Saturday.
—Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2018
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In fact, cognitive decline and microvascular dysfunction are essentially universal consequences of long term smoking for everyone.
—Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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Low levels of estrogen after menopause pose a significant risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease in the smaller blood vessels (coronary microvascular disease).
—Mayo Clinic News Network (tns), The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
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