the human pulmonary circulation: its form and function: its form and function in health and diseases /
Peter Harris
- 1a
- New York, us Churchill Livinsgtone 19770000
- 712p.
The anatomy of the large pulmonary blood vessels.-Developmental anomalies of the large pulmonary blood vessels.-The structure of the normal pulmonary blood vessels after infancy.-The relation between structure and function in normal pulmonary blood vessels.-The measurement of pressure.-The measurement of flow.-The regional distribution of pulmonary blood flow.-The measuremt of blood volume in the lungs.-Resistance.-Distensibility, inertia and impedance.-Normal variations in preasure and flow.-Structure and function of vascular smooth muscle.-Pharmacology of the pulmonary circulation.-Form and function in the foetal pulmonary circulation.-Causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension.-The pathology and electron microscopy of hypertensive pulmonary arteries