Daniele Bonacina

TL;DR: Slow deep breathing improves ventilation efficiency for oxygen as shown by blood oxygenation increase, and it reduces systemic and pulmonary blood pressure at high altitude but does not change pulmonary gas diffusion.

TL;DR: At high altitude, lung diffusing capacity improves with acclimatization due to increases of hemoglobin, alveolar volume, and membrane diffusion and can develop in 3 wk.

TL;DR: The causes and development of lung fluid, as well as the integrity of the alveolar-capillary membrane at high altitude, are undefined as mentioned in this paper, but the authors of this study were conceived to see whether fluid accumulates within the lung with acute high altitude exposure, and whether this is associated with alveoral capillary membrane damage.

TL;DR: A brief course of anesthesia and controlled ventilation leads to alveolar damage, which is correlated with lung strain and perfusion, and impaired gas exchange mainly due to volume loss but also to reduced aerated lung perfusion.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors found that the initial value of static compliance of respiratory system (Crs) depends on the previous duration of the disease (i.e., the fewer days of illness, the higher the Crs and vice versa) and identified different lung patterns of time evolution and response to prone positioning.