TY - JOUR
T1 - Review
T2 - Re-expansion, re-oxygenation, and rethinking
AU - Jackson, R. M.
AU - Veal, C. F.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - In a 1902 American Journal of the Medical Sciences case report, Riesman described "albuminous expectoration" following thoracentesis, a phenomenon that is now recognized as re-expansion pulmonary edema (RPE). Both cellular and biochemical mechanisms that produce lung injury in RPE have been described recently. Pathophysiologically, this unilateral edematous lung injury resembles the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) because both are characterized by intra-alveolar-activated neutrophils and markedly increased lung capillary permeability. Biochemical mechanisms that operate in RPE are analogous to those in diverse re-oxygenation (reperfusion) injuries that have been described recently in the heart, kidney, brain, and intestine. Re-oxygenated lung tissue appears to produce excess superoxide and other cytotoxic oxygen metabolites, although lung xanthine oxidase, the commonly recognized source of these oxidants, is exceedingly low. Riesman's critical analyses of the re-expansion edema fluid in his case provided an impetus for others to hypothesize that increased permeability pulmonary edema in RPE represented re-oxygenation injury of the lung microvasculature.
AB - In a 1902 American Journal of the Medical Sciences case report, Riesman described "albuminous expectoration" following thoracentesis, a phenomenon that is now recognized as re-expansion pulmonary edema (RPE). Both cellular and biochemical mechanisms that produce lung injury in RPE have been described recently. Pathophysiologically, this unilateral edematous lung injury resembles the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) because both are characterized by intra-alveolar-activated neutrophils and markedly increased lung capillary permeability. Biochemical mechanisms that operate in RPE are analogous to those in diverse re-oxygenation (reperfusion) injuries that have been described recently in the heart, kidney, brain, and intestine. Re-oxygenated lung tissue appears to produce excess superoxide and other cytotoxic oxygen metabolites, although lung xanthine oxidase, the commonly recognized source of these oxidants, is exceedingly low. Riesman's critical analyses of the re-expansion edema fluid in his case provided an impetus for others to hypothesize that increased permeability pulmonary edema in RPE represented re-oxygenation injury of the lung microvasculature.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000441-198907000-00009
DO - 10.1097/00000441-198907000-00009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 2665485
AN - SCOPUS:0024365614
VL - 298
SP - 44
EP - 50
JO - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
JF - American Journal of the Medical Sciences
SN - 0002-9629
IS - 1
ER -