Regional Distribution of Pulmonary Ventilation and Perfusion in Obesity

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Abstract

Five women and three men, all obese and weighing 95 to 140 kg, were studied by routine pulmonary function tests and by a radioactive xenon technique, while seated upright at rest, to measure the regional ventilation and perfusion distribution in the lung.

Authors

H. S. Holley, J. Milic-Emili, M. R. Becklake, D. V. Bates