A group of Wistar albino rats was injected subcutaneously with monocrotaline to induce vasoconstrictive hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease characterized by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries, the appearance of muscular pulmonary arterial vessels of arteriolar dimensions (less than 20 microns) in diameter), and exudative changes in the lung parenchyma. The vascular abnormalities were quantified by measuring the percentage medial thickness of small pulmonary arteries, the number of muscular pulmonary arterial vessels below 20 microns in diameter per cm2 of lung section and by determining the smallest arterial vessels in each case showing muscularity. A second group of rats was born in a decompression chamber and kept in hypobaric hypoxia for a month of the neonatal period, developing hypoxic hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease as a consequence. The animals in this group were allowed to recover in room air for a period of 3 months and were then injected with the same dose of monocrotaline as that given to the first group. The rats previously exposed to hypoxia exhibited an exaggerated response to the alkaloid, showing in particular many more small muscular pulmonary arterial vessels which were of a smaller diameter than those found in the eupoxic rats treated with the alkaloid. The experiment demonstrates the perinatal hypoxia exaggerates the effects of agents inducing vasoconstrictive pulmonary hypertension with a shift of the segment of the pulmonary arterial tree involved to the periphery as in hypoxia. Reports of a similar phenomenon are noted as occurring in babies born at high altitude, spending their infancy there and subsequently developing primary pulmonary hypertension later in life.

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