Abstract
Summary
Intravenous injection of colloidal carbon particles within one to four hours after thermal injury is followed by the precipitous clearance of carbon from the blood of the recipients and respiratory death, secondary to massive embolization of the injected carbon to the pulmonary vascular bed. The results suggest that thermal injury may be associated with the early release of showers of microaggregates into the circulation, with subsequent embolization to the lungs.
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