KROK 1 2014 – Question 30 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A patient has increased thickness of alveolar-capillary membrane caused by a pathologic process. The direct consequence will be reduction of the following value:
- A. Respiratory minute volume
- B. Expiratory reserve volume
- C. Oxygen capacity of blood
- D. Alveolar ventilation of lungs
- E. Diffusing lung capacity
Hint
Separate parameters that depend on airflow mechanics from those that depend on gas transfer across the membrane, and decide which one a thicker membrane affects directly.
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