Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a heterogeneous process that results in
diffuse alveolar damage. It is associated with a variety of causative factors that can be …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is usually viewed as the functional and
morphological expression of a similar underlying lung injury caused by a variety of insults …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was formally described in 1971; however,
physicians have been describing this syndrome and associating pulmonary edema with …

▪ Abstract The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been recognized for more
than three decades as a cause of respiratory failure in patients with a variety of illnesses …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a nonspecific host response to a variety
of injurious agents that often are divided into those related to airways and those resulting …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes 40% mortality in approximately
200,000 critically ill patients annually in the United States. ARDS is caused by protein-rich …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a frequently encountered clinical syndrome
associated with unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. 1 Since its first description in …

Although traumatic wet lung with associated pulmonary edema had previously been noted
following battlefield injuries [1], it was not until 1967 that Ashbaugh et al [2, 3] at the …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first described in 1967, and since then
there have been a large number of studies addressing its pathogenesis and therapies …

Acute lung injury is characterized by the rapid onset of a severeinflammatory response that
contributes to cell and tissue injury, abnormallung compliance, and impaired gas exchange …