Abstract
In the occasional cases of pneumonia which show a decrease in the oxygen capacity of the blood, the decrease is probably due to a formation of methemoglobin. The latter is removed from the circulation, however, as rapidly as it is formed, so that it can seldom be detected even qualitatively, and is probably never a cause of cyanosis.
Full Text
The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (630.0 KB).
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- Blake F. G. THE FORMATION OF METHEMOGLOBIN BY STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS. J Exp Med. 1916 Oct 1;24(4):315–327. doi: 10.1084/jem.24.4.315. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Butterfield E. E., Peabody F. W. THE ACTION OF PNEUMOCOCCUS ON BLOOD. J Exp Med. 1913 May 1;17(5):587–592. doi: 10.1084/jem.17.5.587. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Cole R. THE PRODUCTION OF METHEMOGLOBIN BY PNEUMOCOCCI. J Exp Med. 1914 Oct 1;20(4):363–378. doi: 10.1084/jem.20.4.363. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Pearce R. M., Austin J. H., Eisenbrey A. B. THE RELATION OF THE SPLEEN TO BLOOD DESTRUCTION AND REGENERATION AND TO HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE : II. THE RELATION OF HEMOGLOBINEMIA TO HEMOGLOBINURIA AND JAUNDICE IN NORMAL AND SPLENECTOMIZED ANIMALS. J Exp Med. 1912 Sep 1;16(3):375–394. doi: 10.1084/jem.16.3.375. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Stadie W. C. THE OXYGEN OF THE ARTERIAL AND VENOUS BLOOD IN PNEUMONIA AND ITS RELATION TO CYANOSIS. J Exp Med. 1919 Sep 1;30(3):215–240. doi: 10.1084/jem.30.3.215. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]