Acute and chronic cardiac failure: the oxygen transport system gone awry

Weber, K. T.; Janicki, J. S.

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3313-2_43

K. T. Weber &
J. S. Janicki

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 70))

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Abstract

The cardiopulmonary unit is the body’s oxygen transport system which links the metabolizing tissues to the atmosphere and its supply of oxygen. As an obligate aerobic organism, man is critically dependent on this metabolic unit to sustain oxidative metabolism and life itself.

Cardiac disease which may lead to an acute and/or chronic failure of the heart to supply the tissues with oxygen at a rate which is commensurate with their aerobic requirements, disrupts the functional integrity of the cardiopulmonary unit. In understanding the concepts of oxygen transport one has a means to better understand the evaluation and management of the patient with cardiac failure, as well as to characterize the pathophysiologic behavior of the oxygen transport system that has gone awry.

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Rutgers Medical School, Rutgers State University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
S. Sideman D.Sc. (Professor of Chemical Engineering and R.J. Matas / Winnipeg Professor of Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Chemical Engineering and R.J. Matas / Winnipeg Professor of Biomedical Engineering)
Department of Biomedical Engineering Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200, Israel
S. Sideman D.Sc. (Professor of Chemical Engineering and R.J. Matas / Winnipeg Professor of Biomedical Engineering) & R. Beyar M.D., D.Sc. (Senior Lecturer) (Professor of Chemical Engineering and R.J. Matas / Winnipeg Professor of Biomedical Engineering) & (Senior Lecturer)

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Weber, K.T., Janicki, J.S. (1987). Acute and chronic cardiac failure: the oxygen transport system gone awry. In: Sideman, S., Beyar, R. (eds) Activation, Metabolism and Perfusion of the Heart. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3313-2_43

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