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J Appl Physiol 66: 288-294, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 1 288-294, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Pulmonary clearance of radiotracers after positive end-expiratory pressure or acute lung injury

M. P. Barrowcliffe, G. D. Zanelli and J. G. Jones
Divison of Anaesthesia, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

In anesthetized rabbits we measured clearance from lung to blood of eight aerosolized technetium-99m-labeled compounds: diethylenetriaminepentaacetate (99mTc-DTPA); cytochrome c; myoglobin; a myoglobin polymer; albumin; and anionic, cationic, and neutral dextrans of equivalent molecular size. We investigated the effect of applying positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and, on a subsequent occasion, of injecting oleic acid intravenously to produce acute lung injury on the pulmonary clearance rate. Base-line clearance rates were monoexponential and varied with the molecular weights of the radiotracers. For each tracer the rate of clearance was increased a similar degree by either PEEP or oleic acid. However, with PEEP, clearance remained monoexponential, whereas after oleic acid, smaller molecular-weight radiotracers had multiexponential clearance curves. This suggests that after oleic acid the alveolar epithelium breaks down in a nonuniform fashion. We conclude that differentiation of the effect of PEEP from that of severe lung injury caused by oleic acid is not readily accomplished by either increasing the size of the tracer molecule or by varying the molecular charge.


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