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(redirected from intrapleural pressure)

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Patients should also know that the negative intrapleural pressure gradient that is generated during deep breathing or paroxysms of coughing might cause a vacuum effect, which can also facilitate the aspiration of an object held loosely around the stoma.
[15,51] In addition, Hawrylkiewicz et al proposed that pulmonary hypertension in patients with ILD is influenced by the large negative intrapleural pressure needed to inflate fibrotic lungs.
The normal aging process also effects the distribution of ventilation via a loss of elastic recoil and thus the normal negative intrapleural pressure that acts as an expansive force on the alveoli.
 
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