Zeitschrift für Atemwegsmedizin

Abstrakt

Relationship of Pleura and Pulmonary Interstitial Liquid

Mike Saunders

The relevant pressures were identified as the pleura liquid pressure, the capillary and oncotic pressures in both the visceral and parietal membranes, and the oncotic pressure of the pleura fluid itself. The early models initially suggested a pressure-driven fluid flow from the parietal side across the pleura space to the visceral pleura and subsequently, into the pulmonary interstitial.