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. 2015 Nov 6;5:38. doi: 10.1186/s13613-015-0081-9

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Fig. 1 — Physiology of lung water. There is a physiological net outward fluid filtration from microvessels to the interstitium governed by the Starling’s law, which is strictly controlled by the lymphatic drainage system (P _alv alveolar pressure, P _H hydrostatic pressure, P _onc oncotic pressure, K filtration coefficient of the alveolocapillary barrier, Kσ reflection coefficient of the alveolocapillary barrier)