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Increased cardiac index due to terbutaline treatment aggravates capillary-alveolar macromolecular leakage in oleic acid lung injury in dogs

Raphael Briot*, Sam Bayat, Daniel Anglade, Jean-Louis Martiel and Francis Grimbert

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Laboratoire TIMC, Equipe PRETA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5525 du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Fourier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Grenoble, 38043 cedex 09, France

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Critical Care 2009, 13:R166 doi:10.1186/cc8137


See related commentary by Lee, http://ccforum.com/content/13/6/1011

Published: 21 October 2009

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Word file with a proposed explanation of the two-compartment model used to interpret the data and detail the calculation of the capillary-alveolar leakage coefficient KBA.

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