Pulmonary embolization causes hypoxemia by redistributing regional blood flow without changing ventilation |
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Authors: | WA Altemeier HT Robertson S McKinney RW Glenny |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-6522, USA. |
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Abstract: | To explore mechanisms of hypoxemia after acute pulmonary embolism, we measured regional pulmonary blood flow and alveolar ventilation before and after embolization with 780-micrometers beads in five anesthetized, mechanically ventilated pigs. Regional ventilation and perfusion were determined in approximately 2.0-cm3 lung volumes by using 1-micrometers-diameter aerosolized and 15-micrometers-diameter injected fluorescent microspheres. Hypoxemia after embolization resulted from increased perfusion to regions with low ventilation-to-perfusion ratios. Embolization caused an increase in perfusion heterogeneity and a fall in the correlation between ventilation and perfusion. Correlation between regional ventilation pre- and postembolization was greater than correlation between regional perfusion pre- and postembolization. The majority of regional ventilation-to-perfusion ratio heterogeneity was attributable to changes in regional perfusion. Regional perfusion redistribution without compensatory changes in regional ventilation is responsible for hypoxemia after pulmonary vascular embolization in pigs. |
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