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As a matter of fact, although the percentage of lung consolidation tended to be greater in patients without septic shock (63 vs 57%), their mean PaO 2 tended to be higher (95 ± 16 vs 88 ± 11 mmHg), suggesting some degree of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction impairment in the non-ventilated lung areas of patients with septic shock.
In agreement with previous studies, the plasma NO metabolite content in the present study was minimally elevated in the hypoxic group.
The inclusion criteria were GCS ≤ 9, and specific medical diagnoses as follows: hypoxic or ischaemic injury; focal cerebral injury; general cerebral injury; metabolic or septic encephalopathy; and drug-induced coma or toxic injury, including drug overdose and coma persisting 24 h after discontinuation of toxic substances.
However, those investigators did not observe any difference in plasma NO metabolites in normoxic versus hypoxic rats in which aortic NOS was downregulated, but did observe a decrease in acetylcholine-stimulated NO release from aortic rings.
This observation of increased susceptibility to hypoxic pulmonary hypertension in younger, developing animals is in agreement with previous reports [ 20, 21].