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What is pleura?

Author: H K



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It is the space between parietal and visceral pleura, contains 0.3ml/kg of hypo-oncotic fluid, which is all the time changed, produced by parietal pleura from up and gets reabsorbed from down Exception where visceral pleura forms it is in case of heart failure, increasing hydrostatic pressure and thus forming liquid from plasma in capillaries.


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