How The Lung Can Resist Edema Formation

Author: Giuseppe Miserocchi

Published: November 21, 2018

DOI: 10.19080/JOCCT.2017.03.555625

Abstract Content: One Generally Thinks Of The Lung As Being An Extremely Fragile Structure To Accomplish Its Main Job, Namely To Assure Gas Diffusion, For Which An Extremely Thin Air-blood Barrier, About 0.3μm Thick, Is Required. Yet, The Idea Of A Delicate And Fragile Structure Does Not Hold When Thinking Of Another Function Of The Lung, Namely That Of Keeping The Interstitial Space And The Alveoli ?dry?, Thus Preventing Edema Formation.