The Pulmonary Circulation and Gas Exchange
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-0-87993-572-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is unique in that much of the information is presented in an anecodtal fashion by the contributors who are the "fathers" of the field of pulmonary. This further reinforces the wealth of scientific material in the book and will make this the basic resource of all the work done in the area of gas exchange in the past 50 years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
258
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1174 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87993-572-6 (9780879935726)
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Content
Strength and Failure of Pulmonary Capillaries; Exploring the Structural Basis for Pulmonary Gas Exchange; Pulmonary Vascular Disease: A Joint Adventure; Pulmonary Edema: Then and Now; Structural Remodeling of the Pulmonary Vasculature by Environmental Change and Disease; A Personal View of Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension; Search for Diffusion Limitation in Pulmonary Gas Exchange; Pulmonary Mechanics and the Pulmonary Blood Vessels; Encounters With the Pulmonary Circulation; My Studies of the Lung Microcirculation; Adventures in Gas Exchange; An Approach to the Study of the Pulmonary Circulation; The Pulmonary Vascular Tree Seen as a Convergent Tree; Pulmonary Vascular Disease in Sheffield, the Andes, Tibet and Tanzania; The Pulmonary Circulation of Some Domestic Animals at High Altitude: The Real Story; Pulmonary Hypertension: The Price of High Living; Pressure, Flow, Stress, and Remodeling in the Pulmonary Vasculature; The Exotic Gases, CO, O2, and CO2; A Physician-Scientist's Tale; Reflections on the Waterfall in the Chest; Acute and Chronic Lack of Oxygen: Consequences for the Lung and Carotid Body or a Journey with Bacillus Investigations, the Curiosity Bug