Impedance to gas transfer across the alveolar-capillary membrane in chronic cardiac failure

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 169-173

  Guazzi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alveolar gas transfer; Chronic cardiac failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BRADYKININ; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GAS DIFFUSION; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 0033826439     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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