Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 57, Issue 2 424-428, Copyright © 1984 by American Physiological Society

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Acute increase in anastomotic bronchial blood flow after pulmonary arterial obstruction

S. K. Jindal, S. Lakshminarayan, W. Kirk and J. Butler

We examined the acute changes in anastomotic bronchial blood flow (Qbr) serially for the 1st h after pulmonary arterial obstruction and subsequent reperfusion. We isolated and perfused the pulmonary circulation of the otherwise intact left lower lobe (LLL) with autologous blood in the widely opened chest of anesthetized dogs. Qbr was measured from the amount of blood overflowing from the closed pulmonary vascular circuit and the changes in the lobe weight. The right lung and the test lobe (LLL) were ventilated independently. The LLL, which was in zone 2 (mean pulmonary arterial pressure = 14.8 cm H2O, pulmonary venous pressure = 0, alveolar pressure = 5-15 cmH2O), was weighed continuously. The systemic blood pressure, gases, and acid-base status were kept constant. In control dogs without pulmonary arterial obstruction, the Qbr did not change for 2 h. Five minutes after pulmonary arterial obstruction, there was already a marked increase in Qbr, which then continued to increase for 1 h. After reperfusion, Qbr decreased. The increase in Qbr was greater after complete lobar than sublobar pulmonary arterial obstruction. It was unaltered when the downstream pulmonary venous pressure was increased to match the preobstruction pulmonary microvascular pressure. Thus, in zone 2, reduction in downstream pressure was not responsible for the increase in Qbr; neither was the decrease in alveolar PCO2, since ventilating the lobe with 10% CO2 instead of air did not change the Qbr. These findings suggest that there is an acute increase in Qbr after pulmonary arterial obstruction and that is not due to downstream pressure or local PCO2 changes.

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