BLOOD VOLUME DYNAMICS

Pulmonary Blood Volume and Pulmonary Capillary Blood Volume in Valvular

Measurements of pulmonary blood volume (PBV) and pulmonary capillary blood volume (V,) and hemodynamic studies were made in a series of 106 patients with valvular heart disease (62 with predominant mitral lesions and 44 with predominant aortic lesions). The results were compared with the data obtained from 14 "normal" patients and nine normal subjects. In 14 "normal" patients, the PBV varied fr...

Blood volume error detector.

THE ESTIMATION OF PLASMA VOLUME has become a very useful and widely applied tool in the diagnosis and treatment of clinical aberrations of water and electrolyte distribution. Methods utilizing the dilution of radioactive iodinated serum albumin (BISA), have been studied and applied extensively, and most of the strictly methodologic difficulties have been overcome. One step, however, that of inj...

Blood-volume: a commentary.

Under physiological conditions and on average, the total volume of blood in the circulation is constant. The total blood volume (BV) and the separate volumes of plasma and erythrocytes vary according to climatic conditions, in pregnancy and in the presence of disease. Such changes can have clinical significance although they are rarely revealed in common clinical practice because of a lack of a...

Blood Volume Regulation

Circulating Coronary Blood Volume.

• The development of catheterization and indicator dilution techniques has made it possible to measure the volume of circulating blood within many organs in the intact animal. Hirche and Lochner injected measured amounts of dye into the coronary arteries of dogs and recorded the subsequent time course of dye concentration in blood from the coronary sinus. From this single curve both coronary bl...