The Unpredictable Effect of Changing Cardiac Output on Hypoxemia after Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Previous studies reported that the degree of hypoxemia following acute pulmonary thromboembolism (APTE) was highly variable and that its mechanism was mainly due to the creation of many high and low ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) units, as a result of the heterogeneous regional blood flow (Q) caused by...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2008-01-01
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Series: | Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4137/CCRPM.S773 |