… Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life threatening respiratory failure due to
lung injury from a variety of precipitants. Pathologically ARDS is characterised by diffuse …

… lung injury (ALI). In keeping with this concept, Murray and colleagues [4] developed a lung
injury … ” (rather than “adult”) respiratory distress syndrome, in recognition that ARDS is not …

… 1The normal alveolus (left) and the injured alveolus in the acute phase of acute lung injury
and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (right). In the acute phase of the syndrome there …

… Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represent a spectrum
of acute respiratory failure with diffuse, bilateral lung injury and severe hypoxemia caused …

… in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Acute lung injury is characterized
by an … Pulmonary edema in acute lung injury has a high protein content because the more …

… acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome is … acute lung injury and acute
respiratory distress syndrome, we … Medical Subject Heading respiratory distress syndrome, adult, …

… are clinical entities of multi-factorial origin frequently seen in traumatically injured patients
… of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome in the critically injured patient. …

… distress syndrome and acute lung injury are well defined and readily recognised clinical
disorders caused by many clinical insults to the lung or because of predispositions to lung injury…

… Acute lung injury (ALI) refers to a syndrome of severe, acute respiratory failure characterized
by respiratory distress, a severe impairment of oxygenation, and noncardiogenic pulmonary …

… the acute respiratory distress syndrome because it occurs in … that is now generally termed
acute lung injury (ALI), have … and molecular events requisite in lung injury and repair. While …