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J Appl Physiol 73: 195-199, 1992;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 73, Issue 1 195-199, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Influence of lung volume and alveolar pressure on reverse pulmonary venous blood flow

T. Obermiller, S. Lakshminarayan, S. Willoughby, J. Mendenhall and J. Butler
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

We have reported that left atrial blood refluxes through the pulmonary veins to gas-exchanging tissue after pulmonary artery ligation. This reverse pulmonary venous flow (Qrpv) was observed only when lung volume was changed by ventilation. This was believed to drive Qrpv by alternately distending and compressing the alveolar and extra-alveolar vessels. Because lung and pulmonary vascular compliances change with lung volume, we studied the effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on the magnitude of Qrpv during constant-volume ventilation. In prone anesthetized goats (n = 8), using the right lung to maintain normal blood gases, we ligated the pulmonary and bronchial arterial inflow to the left lung and ventilated each lung separately. A solution of SF6, an inert gas, was infused into the left atrium. SF6 clearance from the left lung was determined by the Fick principle at 0, 5, 10, and 15 and again at 0 cmH2O PEEP and was used to measure Qrpv. Left atrial pressure remained nearly constant at 20 cmH2O because the increasing levels of PEEP were applied to the left lung only. Qrpv was three- to fourfold greater at 10 and 15 than at 0 cmH2O PEEP. At these higher levels of PEEP, there were greater excursions in alveolar pressure for the same ventilatory volume. We believe that larger excursions in transpulmonary pressure during tidal ventilation at higher levels of PEEP, which compressed alveolar vessels, resulted in the reflux of greater volumes of left atrial blood, through relatively noncompliant extra-alveolar veins into alveolar corner vessels, and more compliant extra-alveolar arteries.


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