Patients with higher levels of pre-kallikrein in their blood were shown to have thicker layers of intima-media in the vasculature of their carotids, report scientists. In an article published ahead of ...

To overcome these handicaps, the intima can be prepared as a thin membrane specimen (Häutchen preparation or, as we call it, the “intimal sheet”). This technique has been used since the 1960s, but ...