To evaluate the impact of presurgical mild acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) on surgical mortality in patients undergoing surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissection by means of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) in a single-center, retrospective study.From January 2011 to December 2015, 333 eligible patients were divided into either a mild-ARDS group (n = 136) or a no-AR...

INTRODUCTION Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a syndrome characterized by diffuse pulmonary edema and severe hypoxemia that usually occurs after an injury such as sepsis, aspiration and pneumonia. Little is known about the relation between the setting where the syndrome developed and outcomes in ARDS patients. METHODS This is a 1-year prospective observational study conducted at ...

BACKGROUND The morbidity and mortality of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains high, and the strategic focus of ARDS research has shifted toward identifying patients at high risk of mortality early in the course of illness. This study intended to identify the heart rate variability (HRV) measure that can predict the outcome of patients with ARDS on admission to the surgical intens...

BACKGROUND The lung injury in adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been associated with increased expiratory hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentrations. Furthermore, patients with sepsis and ARDS are reported to have greater serum scavenging of H2O2 than patients with ARDS only. We hypothesized that the systemic presence of H2O2 would be detectable in the urine of these two groups of pat...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pneumonia are closely correlated in the critically ill patient. Whereas ARDS is often complicated by nosocomial pneumonia, pulmonary infection is also the most frequent single cause of ARDS. The prevalence of pneumonia during the course of ARDS seems to be particularly high, but whether persons with ARDS are more susceptible to pneumonia or simply ...

INTRODUCTION The long-term attributable burden related to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is not fully investigated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) and functional status at 6 months after hospitalization in patients at risk for ARDS who did and did not develop the syndrome. METHOD This is a population-based prospective cohort study of adult patients ...

BACKGROUND Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs), involving immune disturbances resulting from auto-inflammatory mechanisms, are a group of diseases characterized by autoimmunity and autoimmunemediated organ damage. Thymoma, whose mechanism is also associated with immune abnormalities, is the most common neoplasm of the anterior mediastinum. But thymoma with ARDs is relatively less frequent. The...

there is a lack of large, prospective epidemiologic studies concerning acute lung injury (ali) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) in pediatric population. to determine the different causes of respiratory distress in children, we prepared a retrospective study and included the whole 567 children with respiratory distress referred to 17-shahrivar hospital, rasht, guilan. using their m...