Preventing ARDS

Preventing Ards by Normalizing Alveolar Mechanics

TO THE EDITOR: Mysteries remain unresolved if the approach is misconceived. In this Viewpoint (3) alveoli are considered as structures sui generis—but they are not. Alveoli are rather air pockets within the ingenious architecture of a fiber continuum designed to expose capillary networks over a large surface to air refreshed from alveolar ducts (4). This fiber continuum spans from the periphera...

Steroids in Early ARDS.

2007;132;1094 Chest Jan G. Zijlstra and Jack J. Ligtenberg Steroids in Early ARDS http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/132/3/1094.full.html and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ISSN:0012-3692 ) http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml ( of the copyright holder. may be reproduced or di...

ARDS in Scrub Typhus

Biomarkers of ALI/ARDS

The use of biomarkers to refine patient populations, such that clinical trials will be most likely to provide a definitive answer requiring the fewest patients, is particularly appealing for application to research involving patients with a heterogeneous syndrome like ALI/ARDS. This could be beneficial by helping to characterize either a group of patients with a high mortality where mortality i...

ARDS Associated With Tumor

therapy was discontinued; prompt resolution of symptoms and laboratory7 abnormalities followed. The patient re¬ fused a challenge study with this medication to see if the clinical picture would return. This case strongly suggests a drug-induced eosinophilic lung disease as supported by the temporal relationship of events, the exclusion of all other causes, and the prompt clinical improvement fo...