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J Appl Physiol 71: 252-258, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 1 252-258, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Pulmonary blood flow and ventilation-perfusion heterogeneity

K. B. Domino, B. L. Eisenstein, F. W. Cheney and M. P. Hlastala
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195.

We studied the independent influence of changes in perfusion on pulmonary gas exchange in the left lower lobe (LLL) of anesthetized dogs. Blood flow to the LLL (QLLL) was raised 50% (increased QLLL) or reduced 50% (decreased QLLL) from baseline by partial occlusion of the right or left pulmonary artery, respectively. Minute ventilation and alveolar PCO2 of the LLL remained constant throughout the study. We determined ventilation-perfusion distributions of the LLL using the multiple inert gas elimination technique. Increased QLLL impaired LLL pulmonary gas exchange. All dispersion indexes and all arterial-alveolar difference areas increased (P less than 0.01). Decreased QLLL increased the log standard deviation of the perfusion distribution (P less than 0.05) and reduced the log standard deviation of the ventilation distribution (P less than 0.01) but did not affect the dispersion indexes or alveolar-arterial difference areas. We conclude that ventilation-perfusion heterogeneity is increased by independent changes in perfusion from normal baseline blood flow, even when ventilation and alveolar gas composition remain constant.


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