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The four primary alveolar processes: ventilation, diffusion, perfusion, and their regulatory mechanism hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. All forms of lung failure result from a defect in one or more of these processes which culminates in V/Q mismatch, or its extreme variants shunt and dead space ventilation.
