In patients with sepsis, activation of hemostasis is of marked pathophysiologic relevance, as it is associated with increased mortality [ 2].
A next investigative step would be to determine if airway remodeling, a pathophysiologic process of increasing importance, is inhibited by allergen IT in patients on appropriate specific IT.
Thus, these changes clearly unmask temporally differentiated changes in platelet function which are of pathophysiologic importance.
A common pathophysiologic effect of many tobacco smoke components may be to increase cellular oxidant stress, which can lead to altered host defense and virus clearance (Cho et al. 2009).
Altered cardiac autonomic function, assessed by decrements in HRV, is associated with acute exposure to ETS and may be part of the pathophysiologic mechanisms linking ETS exposure and increased cardiac vulnerability.
Consequently, their alteration may have multiple pathophysiologic effects and the number of papers studying their expression in normal and pathologic conditions is constantly increasing [ 1- 3].
There is an increasing interest in both motor and non-motor symptoms in clinical studies on PD patients and laboratory research on animal models that imitate the pathophysiologic features and symptoms of PD patients.
Disruption of plaques is now considered to be the common pathophysiologic substrate of an ACS.
This overall trend may reflect a pathophysiologic phenomenon of increased oxygen extraction during more powerful detrusor muscle contraction which can be explained in the light of the "muscle pump" phenomenon.
Because of these shared risks and overlapping pathophysiologic mechanisms, we designed this pilot study to address the hypothesis that the presence of coronary artery calcium, a known indicator of increased cardiac risk, is associated with erectile dysfunction.
