Hypoxemia due to venous admixture in cirrhosis of the liver
- 1 March 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 15 (2), 253-254
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1960.15.2.253
Abstract
The percentage of venous admixture to arterialized blood was measured by two different techniques in two groups of patients with cirrhosis of the liver and, in both groups, averaged 9.7% of the cardiac output. Since one of the techniques was based on measurement of the arterial oxygen tension during oxygen breathing, the venous admixture must have resulted from some type of right-to-left shunt. It was not possible to determine whether the right-to-left shunt resulted from anastamoses between the portal system and the bronchopulmonary venous system or from pulmonary arteriovenous communications. Submitted on March 30, 1959Keywords
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