Hemodynamics of the Microcirculation Physical Characteristics of Blood Flow in the Microvasculature

Abstract

Although a considerable investigative activity among both pathologists and physiologists had been concentrated during the end of the last century on the study of microcirculatory events (for instance, those associated with inflammatory processes), many of these very significant efforts had to remain more or less descriptive due to methodological limitations. The explosive methodological development which has occurred within the last two decades has therefore made it possible to obtain more quantitative information on many of the hemodynamic parameters determining microcirculatory perfusion which, after all, is the basis for the exchange processes serving cellular activity