EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
Abnormalities of pulmonary function in patients with pulmonary vascular disease are usually a consequence of the underlying lung disease rather than an intrinsic effect of the pulmonary vascular disease. An exception is the decreased diffusing capacity due to capillary obliteration. In addition, pulmonary vascular occlusion and obliteration cause shunt and ventilation-perfusion inequality by undefined mechanisms. The resulting hypoxemia is further exaggerated by the associated reduction of cardiac output and low mixed venous Po2.
- CLINICAL PRESENTATION
- Hematuria
- OXYGEN
- SPECIFIC MANIFESTATIONS OF RENAL DISEASE
- SPECIFIC ARRHYTHMIAS - sinus nodal rhythm disturbances
- MOXIOUS GASES AflD FUMES
- CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS
- PRINCIPLES OF CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
- PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PULMONARY CIRCULATION
- ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS - DEFIRILTIORI
- BRORICHODILATORS
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- Classification or Glomerular Diseases
- Pathogenic Mechanisms - Mechanism of Injury
- Familial Polyposis of the Colon
- RENAL METABOLISM Of DRUGS
- HEART DISEASE AND PREGNANCY
- ASTHMA
- Visualization of the Biliary Tree
- TREATMENT
- VARIATiT ANGINA
- TRAMSPLATTTATION
- SMOKE INHALATION
- Etiology and Pathogenesis
- LIVER ABSCESS
- New Eligibility System
- POLYPS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
- Minimal Change Nephropathy
- DRUG-ASSOCIATED RENAL INJURY
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION OF JAUNDICE
- THE APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
- CLINICAL SYMPTOMS OF ESOPHAGEAL DISEASE
- Lidocaine
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS