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Abstract
The importance of pulmonary interaction with platelets and leukocytes in inducing
acute respiratory failure was studied in a group of 23 severely septic patients and
in a second group of 12 patients undergoing abdominal aneurysm surgery. The entrapments
of platelets and white blood cells by both groups of patients were significantly correlated.
Only the neutrophils were removed consistently by the lungs. Septic patients exhibited
severe derangements in physiological shunting (Q̇S/Q̇T), physiological dead space, pulmonary vascular resi These measures of pulmonary function
were significantly poorer than in the postoperative aneurysm patients. The thrombocytopenia
observed in both patient categories did not relate to the loss of platelets in the
lungs. The percentage of platelets or white blood cells in mixed venous blood, which
passed through the lungs and appeared in arterial blood was correlated inversely with
(Q̇S/Q̇T) in septic patients (p < 0.001) but did not correlate pulmonary function. The aneurysm
patients also showed no correlation of platelet and white blood cell entrapment with
pulmonary function (save for a surprising relation between increased platelet entrapment
and decreased physiological dead space, p < 0.05). The data substantiate a relationship
between the pulmonary entrapment of platelets or white blood cells and the hypoxia
of sepsis, but fail to relate entrapment to any other functional abnormality associated
with acute respiratory failure.
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Publication history
Accepted:
March 31,
1977
Footnotes
☆Supported in part by United States Department of the Army contract Da 17-76-C-6034 and National Institutes of Health grant 2-R01-GM17366-07-C02.
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© 1978 Published by Elsevier Inc.
