That's called alveolar hypoxia. This kind of hypoxia can start a chain reaction that leads to low oxygen in your blood, or hypoxemia. Hypoxemia is a key reason for the shortness of breath you get ...

The elevated alveolar–arterial oxygen difference that is seen in subjects who are in conditions of extreme hypoxia may represent a degree of subclinical high-altitude pulmonary edema or a ...

In the neonatal rats exposed to hypoxia, the radial alveolar counts were decreased to 5.6 from 7.9 and the mean linear intercepts were increased to 56.5 μm from 38.2 μm. In DNA microarray ...

alveolar hypoventilation, right to left shunt, and diffusion-perfusion abnormality. Although the terms hypoxemia and hypoxia are often used interchangeably, they differ from each other.