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Abstract
To understand the hemodynamic alterations associated with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, the large pulmonary arteries of mongrel dogs were chronically obstructed with lysis-resistant thrombi. Pulmonary hemodynamics were experimentally measured and described by multipoint pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) vs. flow plots. In nine anesthetized chronically embolized dogs, but not in six control dogs, the PAP-flow line shifted significantly upward in a parallel fashion by 4.2 +/- 0.7 mmHg. The postembolic pulmonary circulation was further characterized by predictions from a morphometric-based elastic tube and sheet flow model of the canine pulmonary circulation. After model validation with the preembolic PAP-flow data, the derived postembolic PAP matched the in vivo results to within 1 mmHg. A detailed analysis of the model-derived PAP drop revealed that the PAP-flow line shift can be accounted for by a novel fixed resistor in the largest obstructed pulmonary artery.
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Schedule a callMore From: Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
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