Thursday, June 13, 2013


Q: What are anatomic Pulmonary and Cardiac shunting?


Answer:  

Pulmonary anatomical shunting: The bronchial circulation provides oxygenation to the lung and is not oxygenated before it returns to the left heart. 

Cardiac anatomical shunting: Some of the blood which flows through some small cardiac veins empty back into the left heart directly without oxygenation.





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