Abstract:Regional lung function has been studied with xenon-i 33 in two patients with unilateral transradiancy of the lung and coincidental cardiac disease. One patient had severe mitral stenosis with pulmonary venous and pulmonary arterial hypertension, the other had a secundum type of atrial septal defect with a pulmonary blood flow which was increased to 25 litres per minute. In both instances the overall perfusion of the transradiant lung was diminished but the regional distribution of blood flow was the same withi… Show more
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