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J Appl Physiol 85: 2337-2343, 1998;
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Vol. 85, Issue 6, 2337-2343, December 1998

Pulmonary embolization causes hypoxemia by redistributing regional blood flow without changing ventilation

William A. Altemeier1, H. Thomas Robertson1, Steve McKinney1, and Robb W. Glenny1,2

Departments of 1 Medicine and of 2 Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-6522

To explore mechanisms of hypoxemia after acute pulmonary embolism, we measured regional pulmonary blood flow and alveolar ventilation before and after embolization with 780-µm beads in five anesthetized, mechanically ventilated pigs. Regional ventilation and perfusion were determined in ~2.0-cm3 lung volumes by using 1-µm-diameter aerosolized and 15-µm-diameter injected fluorescent microspheres. Hypoxemia after embolization resulted from increased perfusion to regions with low ventilation-to-perfusion ratios. Embolization caused an increase in perfusion heterogeneity and a fall in the correlation between ventilation and perfusion. Correlation between regional ventilation pre- and postembolization was greater than correlation between regional perfusion pre- and postembolization. The majority of regional ventilation-to-perfusion ratio heterogeneity was attributable to changes in regional perfusion. Regional perfusion redistribution without compensatory changes in regional ventilation is responsible for hypoxemia after pulmonary vascular embolization in pigs.

pulmonary embolism; ventilation-perfusion mismatch; pigs; gas exchange; aerosol; fluorescent microspheres


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