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.
- OBLITERATIVE OR OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- DIFFUSE INFILTRATIVE DISEASES OF THE LUNG
- SPECIFIC ENTITIES - DISEASES WITH KFiOWIi ETIOLOGIES -
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
- HYPERKINETIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Pulmonary Hemorrhagic Disorders
- Other Clearly Extrinsic Causes of Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease
- DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
- Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia PIE
- EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON PULMONARY FUNCTION
- TREATMENT
- Pulmonary Vasculitis
- PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON CARDIAC FUNCTION
- POSTCAPILLARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- CAUSES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Sarcoidosis
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Miscellaneous