Pulmonary and peripheral gas exchange in health and disease
By: edited by Josep Roca, Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin, Peter D. Wagner.
Contributors: Roca, Josep, 1952-; Rodriguez-Roisin, Roberto.; Wagner, P. D.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 148
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 822
Subjects: Pulmonary Gas Exchange; Oxygen -- metabolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Basic principles. 1. Pulmonary and peripheral gas exchange and their interactions ; 2. Oxygen and metabolic homeostasis during large-scale change in tissue work rates ; 3. Experimental approaches to the study of gas exchange; title: pt. 2. Pulmonary gas exchange. 4. Gas exchange in health: rest, exercise and aging ; 5. Gas exchange in health: attitude and microgravity ; 6. Anesthesia and gas exchange ; 7. Asthma ; 8. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; 9. Interstitial lung diseases ; 10. Pulmonary vascular diseases ; 11. Acute lung injury; title: pt. 3. Gas exchange in the periphery: organs and systems. 12. Whole-body oxygen transport and use ; 13. Gas exchange in the heart ; 14. Localization and dispersion of oxygen demand and supply in skeletal muscle ; 15. The gut: oxygen transport and gas exchange function ; 16. The brain ; 17. The kidney; title: pt. 4. Integrated gas exchange responses. 18. Pulmonary and peripheral gas exchange during exercise ; 19. Gas exchange in lung and muscle at high altitude ; 20. Systemic gas exchange and exercise performance in chronic pulmonary disease ; 21. Cardiopulmoary and peripheral vascular alterations in chronic congestive heart failure ; 22. Role of hemoglobin in the delivery of oxygen to tissues ; 23. Integrated gas exchange response: chronic renal failure ; 24. Multiple organ failure.