Interest in the pathogenetic mechanisms of acute lung injury has focusd in recent years on
the cellular and biochemical mediators of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by acute diffuse lung injury,
which results in increased pulmonary vascular permeability and loss of aerated lung tissue …

Background Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating complication of
numerous underlying conditions, most notably sepsis. Although pathologic vascular leak …

Acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe extreme the acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) refer to increased-permeability pulmonary edema caused by a variety of pulmonary …

Objective.: To report the high incidence of barotrauma in critically ill patients admitted to the
intensive care unit (ICU) with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to discuss its …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute and severe form of
microvascular lung injury which is frequently seen in intensive therapy units. Reductions in …

The host defence response (HDR) to insults is similar regardless of the tissue involved and
consists of an interactive network of simultaneously activated pathways that act in synergy to …

The increasing amount of clinically relevant information obtained by positron emission
tomography (PET), primarily with fluorine-18 labelled 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-glucose, has …

The American Thoracic Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
sponsored a meeting of leading investigators in 1992 to discuss key issues about ARDS. A …

Chest imaging in patients with acute respiratory failure plays an important role in
diagnosing, monitoring and assessing the underlying disease. The available modalities …