Abstract Treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe form, acute respiratory
distress syndrome (ARDS), remain unsolved problems of intensive care medicine …

Infectious diseases remain a major health problem, and sepsis and other severe infectious
diseases are common causes of morbidity and mortality. There is a need for clinical and …

Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome caused by infection. With high
morbidity and mortality of this disease, there is a need to find early effective diagnosis and …

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a frequent cause of transfusion-associated
morbidity and mortality. Severe TRALI is often due to antibodies in blood components …

BACKGROUND Platelet concentrates (PCs) are the most common blood components
eliciting nonhemolytic transfusion reactions (NHTRs), such as allergic transfusion reactions …

Introduction Heparin-binding protein (HBP) is an antimicrobial protein stored in neutrophil
granules and plays a role in endothelial permeability regulation. The aim was to assess the …

Background Heparin‐binding protein (HBP) is a neutrophil‐derived protein advocated as a
biomarker in sepsis. We evaluated plasma HBP as a predictor of post‐injury sepsis in …

Aims PMNs (polymorphonuclear neutrophil) play important roles in early stage of
inflammation induced ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). Both HBP (Heparin …

Nonhemolytic transfusion reactions (NHTRs) are the most common transfusion reactions
and include transfusion‐related acute lung injury (TRALI) and allergic and febrile reactions …

Antibodies against human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) have long been associated with
transfusion‐related acute lung injury (TRALI). In contrast to febrile transfusion reactions and …