[The interrelationship between the respiratory and lipopexic functions of the lungs in several non-specific pulmonary...

One hundred and twenty five patients with non-specific lung diseases were exa mined with a view to the relation and interrelations between lung ventilation, acid base equilibrium and lipopectic lung function. The major part of the patients examined are with obstructive and mixed type ventilation insufficiency (96.6 per cent) and with increased lipopectic lung function (52,0 per cent). Diminished lipopexia occurred in 42.4 per cent of the patients, predominantly in those with obstructive and mixed typed ventilation insufficiency. Lung lipopexia tends towards a correlation with PaCO2 more than with HbO2--it is more often combined with hypercapnia as compared with hypocapnia. The increased and decreased lipopectic lung function is found about three times more often in patients with non-homogeneous alveolar ventilation than with homogeneous. The increased lipopexia is combined more frequently with alveolar hypoventilation syndrome.