For context, this question relates to the formation of deep vein thrombosis as I read that hypoxemia in vein can trigger coagulation cascade and cause a thrombus to form in vein.
I read that vein's valve pocket sinus tend to become hypoxic due to vortical flow. The diagram I attached below has oxygen tension color coded with a gradient from red to blue; the darker the blue is, the greater the hypoxia.
However, how exactly does vortical flow have to do with hypoxemia in those regions? From my understanding, the lack of blood circulation in vein's valve pocket shouldn't affect the amount of O2 bound to the haemoglobin stucked in the vein's pocket? As veins are not permeable to O2 thus O2 can't escape into surrounding cells.
References:
Bovill EG, van der Vliet A. Venous valvular stasis-associated hypoxia and thrombosis: what is the link? Annu Rev Physiol. 2011;73:527–545. doi: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-012110-142305.
Mackman N. (2012). New insights into the mechanisms of venous thrombosis. The Journal of clinical investigation, 122(7), 2331–2336. doi:10.1172/JCI60229