Distributions of lung ventilation and perfusion in prone and supine humans exposed to hypergravity.

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  • M Rohdin
  • J Petersson
  • M Mure
  • R W Glenny
  • S G E Lindahl
  • D Linnarsson
چکیده

When normal subjects are exposed to hypergravity [5 times normal gravity (5 G)] there is an impaired arterial oxygenation that is less severe in the prone compared with supine posture. We hypothesized that under these conditions the heterogeneities of ventilation and/or perfusion distributions would be less prominent when subjects were prone compared with supine. Expirograms from a combined rebreathing-single breath washout maneuver (Rohdin M, Sundblad P, and Linnarsson D. J Appl Physiol 96: 1470-1477, 2004) were analyzed for vital capacity (VC), phase III slope, and phase IV amplitude, to analyze heterogeneities in ventilation (Ar) and perfusion [CO(2)-to-Ar ratio (CO(2)/Ar)] distribution, respectively. During hypergravity, VC decreased more in the supine than in the prone position (ANOVA, P = 0.02). Phase III slope was more positive for Ar (P = 0.003) and more negative for CO(2)/Ar (P = 0.007) in the supine compared with prone posture at 5 G, in agreement with the notion of a more severe hypergravity-induced ventilation-perfusion mismatch in supine posture. Phase IV amplitude became lower in the supine than in the prone posture for both Ar (P = 0.02) and CO(2)/Ar (P = 0.004) during hypergravity as a result of the more reduced VC in the supine posture. We speculate that results of VC and phase IV amplitude are due to the differences in heart-lung interaction and diaphragm position between postures: a stable position of the heart and diaphragm in prone hypergravity, in contrast to supine in which the weight of the heart and a cephalad shift of the diaphragm compress lung tissue.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of applied physiology

دوره 97 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004