[Long-term observation of pulmonary water and protein extravasation in traumatic-hemorrhagic shock (author's transl)].

Abstract

Eleven mongrel dogs were observed for 72 h following a standardized traumatic hemorrhagic shock. The decrease of plasma albumin concentration and blood 125-I-albumin activity with a concomitant increase in lung I-albumin content is possibly caused by capillary leakage. A rise in the extravascular lung water content was measured by a gravimetric postmortem method. An in vivo double indicator technique, however, failed to document these findings.