-
Clinics in chest medicine · Dec 2006
ReviewMechanisms of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.
- Benjamin T Suratt and Polly E Parsons.
- Vermont Lung Center, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. benjamin.suratt@uvm.edu
- Clin. Chest Med. 2006 Dec 1; 27 (4): 579-89; abstract viii.
AbstractAcute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome is a clinical syndrome that describes a single common end point: severe injury to the alveolar capillary membrane and the development of proteinaceous edema. Forty years of clinical and basic science research have elaborated many of the pathophysiologic mechanisms that link initiating insults to the development of alveolar membrane failure. A combination of genetics, comorbid conditions, inciting events, and factors yet to be discovered may uniquely alter the expression of these mechanisms in the individual patient.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..