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J Appl Physiol 71: 1990-1995, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 5 1990-1995, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Pulmonary hypertension after postlavage lung injury in rabbits: possible role of polymorphonuclear leukocytes

R. Burger and A. C. Bryan
Department of Respiratory Physiology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Previous studies showed that repeated lung lavage leads to a severe lung injury with very poor gas exchange, a substantial protein leak into the alveoli with hyaline membrane formation, pulmonary hypertension, and migration of granulocytes (PMN) into the alveolar spaces. Depletion of PMN leads to a better gas exchange and a markedly decreased protein leak with only scanty hyaline membranes. In this study we show that there is sustained pulmonary hypertension after the lung lavage, but in PMN-depleted rabbits there is no postlavage increase in pulmonary arterial pressure. Changing the shunt fraction by manipulating mean airway pressure still leads to a hypoxic vasoconstriction with increase of pulmonary arterial pressure. Thus, after lung lavage, pulmonary reactivity to hypoxia is still preserved. Comparisons between high-frequency ventilation and conventional mechanical ventilation at the same mean airway pressures showed that equal mean airway pressure in these two very different modes of ventilation do not translate into the same mean functional lung volumes.


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