The contribution of intrapulmonary shunts to the alveolar-to-arterial oxygen difference during exercise is very small.
The contribution of intrapulmonary shunts to the alveolar-to-arterial oxygen difference during exercise is very small.
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运动期间肺内分流对肺泡与动脉氧差的贡献非常小。
DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.2007.150128
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2008
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Wagner,PeterD
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Vogiatzis,Ioannis;Zakynthinos,Spyros;Boushel,Robert;Athanasopoulos,Dimitris;Guenette,JordanA;Wagner,Harrieth;Roussos,Charis;Wagner,PeterD
Exercise is well known to cause arterial to fall and the alveolar–arterial difference (Aa ) to increase. Until recently, the physiological basis for this was considered to be mostly ventilation/perfusion / inequality and alveolar–capillary diffusion limitation. Recently, arterio‐venous shunting through dilated pulmonary blood vessels has been proposed to explain a significant part of the Aa during exercise. To test this hypothesis we determined venous admixture during 5 min of near‐maximal, constant‐load, exercise in hypoxia (in inspired O2fraction, , 0.13), normoxia (, 0.21) and hyperoxia (, 1.0) undertaken in balanced order on the same day in seven fit cyclists (, 61.3 ± 2.4 ml kg−1min−1; mean ±s.e.m.). Venous admixture reflects three causes of hypoxaemia combined: true shunt, diffusion limitation and / inequality. In hypoxia, venous admixture was 22.8 ± 2.5% of the cardiac output; in normoxia it was 3.5 ± 0.5%; in hyperoxia it was 0.5 ± 0.2%. Since only true shunt accounts for venous admixture while breathing 100% O2, the present study suggests that shunt accounts for only a very small portion of the observed venous admixture, Aa and hypoxaemia during heavy exercise.