The elevation of venous pressure (Pv) in isolated perfused organs causes organ weight to increase in a biphasic manner. The initial rapid phase results primarily from an increase in blood volume (BV), whereas the second slower phase is generally…
To determine the correlation between ultrastructural and physiological changes in blood-gas barrier function in lungs transiently exposed to very high vascular pressures, we increased capillary transmural pressure (Ptm) of 6 canine isolated perfused…
