Ticagrelor improves blood viscosity-dependent microcirculatory flow in patients with lower extremity arterial disease: the Hema-kinesis clinical trial.

Background: Microvascular blood flow (MBF) impairment in patients with lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) is associated with more severe major adverse limb events (MALE). The contribution of ticagrelor, a P2Y12 antagonist and an adenosine enhancer, on blood viscosity (BV) and BV-dependent MBF in LEAD is unknown. The aim of the trial is to investigate the effects of ticagrelor on BV, and explore the association of BV-dependent MBF in participants with LEAD and type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Ticagrelor and the Prevention of Microvascular Complications in Diabetes Patients with Lower Extremity Arterial Disease; Rationale and Design of the Hema-Kinesis Trial.

Background: Lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) occurs more common in patients with diabetes than without diabetes. Microvascular complications of diabetes contribute to higher rates of adverse limb events in patients with LEAD. Blood flow in the macrocirculation and microcirculation is reduced with increasing low-shear and high-shear blood viscosity.

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia presenting as chylomicronemia syndrome.

Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) is characterized by a twofold elevation in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Severe elevations in triglycerides are an uncommon manifestation. In this case report, we discuss an atypical presentation of the chylomicronemia syndrome in a patient with HeFH.