Critical Care Medicine 1990-Dec
Pentoxifylline attenuates edema formation in proteolytic enzyme-induced lung injury.
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Ex vivo canine lung lobes were exposed to a pancreatic proteolytic enzyme (chymotrypsin) alone or chymotrypsin after pretreatment with a continuous infusion with pentoxifylline. The lobes exposed to chymotrypsin gained 133 g, while the pentoxifylline-treated lobes gained only 65 g (p less than .05) over the 3-h experimental period. These results suggest that pentoxifylline significantly attenuates the lung weight gain associated with chymotrypsin.