Articles: respiratory-distress-syndrome.
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Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. · Feb 1990
Comparative StudyLung microvascular transport properties measured by multiple indicator dilution methods in patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome. A comparison between patients reversing respiratory failure and those failing to reverse.
We conducted indicator dilution studies on the lungs of patients in the early phases of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to test the hypothesis that capillary permeability was increased in patients with respiratory failure. Indicator dilution studies were performed using 51Cr-erythrocytes, 125I-albumin, 14C-urea, and 3H-water as tracers. The injectate was infused as a bolus into a central venous line. ⋯ Linear regression analysis showed significant correlations for all of the following in the nonreversal group: Ve and all measures of permeability, pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), and the inverse of permeability-surface area measures and AaDO2 and PVR. Only measures of Ve and PS correlated in the reversal group. These results support the hypothesis that capillary permeability is increased in patients with early ARDS and continuing respiratory failure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Critical care medicine · Feb 1990
Case ReportsLow-frequency positive-pressure ventilation with extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal.
Successful use of a new technique, low-frequency positive-pressure ventilation with extracorporeal CO2 removal (LFPPV-ECCR) is presented. The association of fulminant respiratory failure with CNS hemangioblastoma, described in the present patient, has been reported only once before, in 1928.