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Inflation and Atelectasis in a Topographical Model of the Lung

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Instability and atelectasis of the lung are discussed in this article. The word instability, like the word disease, has no unique meaning. Here I mean the tendency of a system toward returning to the initial state after an arbitrary infinitesimal perturbation: A system is stable if it would return, unstable if the return is not guaranteed.

The support of United States NIH and NSF in this research is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Institut für Anaesthesiologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Krankenhausstrasse 12, D-8520, Erlangen, Germany

    Erich Rügheimer

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Fung, Y.C. (1992). Inflation and Atelectasis in a Topographical Model of the Lung. In: Rügheimer, E. (eds) New Aspects on Respiratory Failure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74943-8_17

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