Hypoxemia in inferior pulmonary veins in supine position is dependent on obesity

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-299

  Yamane, Teiichi ^a   Date, Taro ^a   Tokuda, Michifumi ^a   Aramaki, Yasuko ^a   Inada, Keiichi ^a   Matsuo, Seiichiro ^a   Shibayama, Kenri ^a   Miyanaga, Satoru ^a   Miyazaki, Hidekazu ^a   Sugimoto, Ken Ichi ^a   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Obesity; pulmonary vein; Supine position

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANOXIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PULMONARY VEINS; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 48249095468     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200801-113OC     Document Type: Article

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