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J Appl Physiol 71: 1606-1613, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 4 1606-1613, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Extra-alveolar veins are contiguous with, and leak fluid into, periarterial cuffs in rabbit lungs

D. L. Luchtel, L. Embree, R. Guest and R. K. Albert
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.

We previously observed physiological evidence that arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels shared a common interstitial space. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine the site of this continuity to improve our understanding of interstitial fluid movement in the lung. Orange G and Evans blue dyes were added to the arterial and venous reservoirs, respectively, of excised rabbit lungs as they were placed 20 cmH2O into zone 1 (pulmonary arterial and venous pressures = 5 cmH2O, alveolar pressure = 25 cmH2O). After 10 s or 4 h the lungs were fixed by immersion in liquid N2, freeze-dried, cut into 5-mm serial slices, and examined by light macroscopy. Serial sections of 0.25-0.5 mm were subsequently examined by scanning electron microscopy. In the animals subjected to the zone 1 stress for 4 h, arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels were surrounded by cuffs of edema. The edema ratio (cuff area divided by vessel lumen area) was greater around arteries than veins and decreased with increasing vessel size. Periarterial cuffs usually contained orange dye and frequently contained both orange and blue dye. Lymphatics containing orange or blue dye were frequently seen in periarterial cuffs. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that extra-alveolar veins of approximately 100 microns diameter were anatomically contiguous with arterial extra-alveolar vessel cuffs. In rabbit lungs, both arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels (and/or alveolar corner vessels) leak fluid into perivascular cuffs surrounding arterial extra-alveolar vessels, and lymphatics located in the periarterial cuff contain fluid that originates from both the arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels.


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