The abdominal circulatory pump.

Blood in the splanchnic vasculature can be transferred to the extremities. We quantified such blood shifts in normal subjects by measuring trunk volume by optoelectronic plethysmography, simultaneously with changes in body volume by whole body plethysmography during contractions of the diaphragm and...

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Main Authors: Andrea Aliverti, Dario Bovio, Irene Fullin, Raffaele L Dellacà, Antonella Lo Mauro, Antonio Pedotti, Peter T Macklem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2678249?pdf=render