Normal water homeostasis in the lung is based on a balance among the so-called" Starling"
forces: a vascular-to-extravascular hydrostatic pressure gradient, a similar but directionally …

This overview will focus on major themes that represent an important link to prior and current
research and provide direction for future work in the field. The summary is divided into five …

The first report of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was published in 1967, and
even now acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS are severe forms of diffuse lung disease that …

The Pulmonary Circulation in Acute Lung Injury Page 1 The Pulmonary Circulation in Acute
Lung Injury S. Singh and T. W. Evans Introduction In adults, lung injury may complicate a wide …

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 …

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 …

The description of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a distinct entity was first
reported by Ashbaugh and colleagues 1 in 1967, defined as a clinical pattern including …

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 …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening syndrome that may
occur in any patient without any predisposition and that is mostly triggered by underlying …

The term adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was first used in 1967 to define the
condition of severe parenchymal lung injury leading to refractory hypoxaemia in the …