The Immune Response to One-Lung Ventilation : Clinical and Experimental Studies

One-lung ventilation (OLV) as an established procedure during thoracic surgery may be injurious in terms of increased mechanical stress characterised by alveolar cell stretch and overdistension, increased cyclic tidal recruitment of alveolar units, compression of alveolar vessels and increased pulmo...

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Main Author: Schilling, Thomas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Klinisk fysiologi 2009
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