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To determine how separate increases in lung volume, pleural pressure, and right ventricular afterload contribute to changes in ventricular function during continuous positive-pressure ventilation.

March 1, 1981Journal of Applied Physiology

Lung volume and pleural pressure effects on ventricular function

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To determine how separate increases in lung volume, pleural pressure, and right ventricular afterload contribute to changes in ventricular function during continuous positive-pressure ventilation.
Assessed hemodynamic responses in 15 dogs across separate interventions: isovolume increases in pleural pressure, lung distension with an open chest, and right ventricular afterload elevation via pulmonary artery constriction.
Isovolume increases in pleural pressure produced biventricular hemodynamic changes indistinguishable from preload reduction.
Lung distension with an open chest increased both right and left atrial intracavitary pressures while significantly reducing cardiac output.
Elevating right ventricular afterload through pulmonary artery constriction failed to reproduce the hemodynamic changes caused by lung distension.

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Experimental study demonstrates lung volume distension impairs ventricular function in dogs, indicating direct mechanical expansion drives hemodynamic changes rather than afterload interdependence.

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Culver et al. (1981) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a15101b6383cb718e9ae0bf https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1981.50.3.630

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Experimental study demonstrates lung volume distension impairs ventricular function in dogs, indicating direct mechanical expansion drives hemodynamic changes rather than afterload interdependence.

Lung volume and pleural pressure effects on ventricular function

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