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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;60:1176
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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See also page 1169.
DR THOMAS M. EGAN (Chapel Hill, NC): Did you look at the other lung? In other words, was there any evidence of microvascular injury to the other lung that was a result of your ischemic insult?
DR EPPINGER: We have looked at the other lung, and we are presently trying to characterize exactly what is going on in that lung. There is injury that happens to the nonischemic lung, but it is different from what goes on in the ischemic reperfused lung.
DR EGAN: Can you elaborate on that at all?
DR EPPINGER: There is no significant increase in the microvascular permeability using the radiolabeled albumin. There are other indices of injury in the lung, such as increased hemorrhage index in that
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