In The News
GSM Scope Newsletter Article Dr. Mountain Leads HRT Study Funded by American Heart Association
Several years ago, clinical faculty in Surgery's Division of Vascular/Transplant Surgery discovered that women receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) who presented with vascular disease requiring intervention often had more adverse outcomes after their procedures than women who were not taking HRT. They found that women taking HRT experience failed vascular interventions because of the development of intimal hyperplasia, a thickening of the arterial wall, causing arterial stenosis, a decrease in vessel diameter and reduced blood flow. Read more>>>>
Research and Women's Health
Frontiers Magazine, August 200, highlights the Vascular Research Laboratory in an article entitled, "How Vascular Research is Benefiting Women's Health."
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Vascular Research Laboratory
Department of Surgery
1924 Alcoa Highway, Box U-11
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: 865-305-6126 or 865-305-9160
Fax: 865-305-6048