Blood flow redistribution and ventilation-perfusion mismatch during embolic pulmonary arterial occlusion.
Acute pulmonary embolism causes redistribution of blood in the lung, which impairs ventilation/perfusion matching and gas exchange and can elevate pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) by increasing pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). An anatomically-based multi-scale model of the human pulmonary circu...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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