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Increased alveolar/capillary membrane resistance to gas transfer in patients with chronic heart failure.

Sundeep Puri, B. Leigh Baker, C M Oakley, J. M. B. Hughes, John G.F. Cleland

Heart · 1994 · 63 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

This study confirmed impairment of pulmonary diffusion at rest in patients with chronic heart failure and identified impaired alveolar/capillary membrane function as the main factor responsible.

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