一仮説に基づく胸水産生・吸収機序について

The Mechanism of Pleural Liquid Transudation and Absorption following a New Hypothesis

　胸水の産生・吸収について，胸膜の毛細血管を，一般組織のそれと同様に動脈端側毛細血管と静脈端側毛細血管に機能的に分けられると仮定した．そしてStarlingの式に従い，前者は胸水産生を，後者は吸収を担うとする．また，リンパ系は蛋白などの排除により膠質浸透圧を低く維持するものとする．この仮定を基にして，Starlingの式の諸因子に通常の諸値を代入計算することにより，完全な肺膨脹が得られるPleural liquid pressureを得た．

We have put forward a hypothesis that the pleural fluid is filtered at the arterial ends of the pleural blood capillaries and is absorbed mainly at the venous ends, partly at the lymphatic channels, as it is in the other tissues. Then we have calculated the pleural liquid pressure following the Starling equation applying the ordinary value of factors. The result is that the calcu-lated pleural liquid pressure is low enough to expand the lung.