The study demonstrates that collateral bronchial circulation to pulmonary embolic areas only becomes significant when pulmonary arterial pressure drops to zero, suggesting proximal physiological anastomoses.
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Hypothesis-generating for bronchial-pulmonary anastomoses in embolism; leaves open relevance to human disease.
Karsner et al. (1913) studied this question.
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