Pathology of the lungs in mitral stenosis in relation to respiratory function and pulmonary haemodynamics.

Abstract

In mitral stenosis, chronic rises in left atrial pressure lead to progressive changes in the structure and function of the lungs: these have been reviewed by Arnott in his Croonian lectures of 1963. We have investigated a small group of patients with this disease in order to study the relation between histological changes in their lungs and abnormalities in their pulmonary heemodynamics and respiratory function.