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Lung Health | Last Active: Sep 28 12:39pm | Replies (184)
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Sorry you’re going through this.
Has anyone mentioned ventilation-perfusion mismatch to you? As I understand it, that means that the blood with open spaces on the hemoglobin molecules don’t arrive in the alveoli at the same time as the oxygen molecules.
It’s like a taxi( blood) arriving for passengers(oxygen molecules)and leaving without them.
Could that be a possibility?
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I know ventilation-perfusion mismatch can mean a lot of things…. I’ve read about sometimes blood rushing past that alveoli faster than the ‘oxygen in the breathed air can transfer into gas in the blood’. Is that kind of what you are talking about? I’m not sure how how that could be specifically tested.