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J Appl Physiol 76: 1363-1371, 1994;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 76, Issue 3 1363-1371, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Distribution function of transit times in the human pulmonary circulation

M. L. Lewis, R. De Caterina and C. Giuntini
Pulmonary Section, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center-New York, New York 10010.

The distribution function of pulmonary transit times (fPTT) defines contact time between blood and vascular bed, which affects gas exchange and endothelial metabolic functions. This study was undertaken to assess effects of abnormal pulmonary inflow (PPA) and outflow pressures (PLA) on fPTT. Three groups were studied: five patients with elevated PLA and passive pulmonary hypertension (LVD-Ab), eight with normal PLA (LVD-Nl), and six with pulmonary disease and various levels of PPA (PD). Empirical complex exponential functions were convoluted on right and left ventricular indicator-dilution curves to derive fPTT; mean transit time (Mo1), standard deviation (Sm2), and cube root of the third moment about Mo1 (Sm3) were calculated by standard equations. A single linear regression of Sm3 and Sm2 on Mo1 was observed for all patients, regardless of disease process. Inverse relations between Mo1, Sm2, and Sm3 and blood flow were highly significant, but dispersion volumes (DV = Mo1 x flow) were higher in patients with elevated PPA. Significant linear regressions of fPTT parameters on PPA, derived in LVD-Nl and LVD-Ab patients, failed to predict Mo1, Sm2, and Sm3 for the PD group, whereas linear regressions on PLA accurately predicted Mo1, Sm2, and Sm3 in the PD group. Relations between fPTT parameters and PLA were equally well fit by exponential equations in all 19 patients, consistent with an asymptotic pressure-volume relation of distensible vessels. Microvascular pressure (PMV), combining PPA and PLA, was not a better predictor of fPTT parameters in LVD-NL and LVD-Ab patients but provided a slightly closer estimate of relative dispersion and skewness in PD patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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