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(Chest. 1961;39:656-662.)
© 1961 American College of Chest Physicians

Pulmonary Function in Cardiac Disease

GLENN E. HORTON M.D., F.C.C.P.1; I. RALPH GOLDMAN M.D., F.C.C.P.2; and JAMES W. PATE M.D.3

1 Instructor in Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, and Courtesy Staffs, Department of Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital and Methodist Hospital.
2 Senior Attending Staff, Department of Medicine, Baptist Memorial Hospital.
3 Assistant Proffessor of Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medecine.

1. Measurements of the (forced) total and timed expiratory vital capacitiea and maximum expiratory flow rates have been made in 11 patients with obvious right ventricular failure and in 18 with left ventricular failure.

2. Pulmonary ventilation studies were of limited value in right ventricular failure except in following the response to therapy. Arterial gas studies were more informative here.

3. However, ventilation tests were a sensitive indicator of incipient or frank left ventricular failure and its response to therapy.

4. Normal parameters obtained on pulmonary ventilation testing as described in this paper were helpful in different acute left ventricular failure from other causes of dyspnea.






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