Sentences with phrase «systemic vasodilation»

Severe acute pancreatitis is a classic cause of shock, especially in dogs, due to systemic vasodilation (distributive) and hypovolaemia (due to extravascular fluid shifts, gastrointestinal fluid loss and reduced fluid intake).

Systemic effects seen in patients with severe pancreatitis include fever, systemic vasodilation leading to hypotension and sometimes acute renal failure, pulmonary edema leading to respiratory failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and in some cases multi-organ failure.

Certainly systemic vasodilation seems a bit of an oxymoron - there are only x liters of blood in the body, and you can't make more blood go EVERYWHERE.

So is systemic vasodilation possible or effective?

However, is systemic vasodilation in any way related to significantly more blood flow to the target muscles?