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Estimating exercise DLO2 and diffusion limitation in patients with interstitial fibrosis

S C Hempleman1, J M Hughes

  • 1Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.

Respiration Physiology
|February 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

In interstitial fibrosis, ventilation-perfusion inequality causes resting hypoxemia. However, diffusion limitation significantly contributes to exercise hypoxemia, especially when analyzed by oxygen content.

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