Patients with ARDS show incomplete restoration of alveolar surface activity upon recombinant SP-C-based surfactant treatment:
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Background: Extensive biochemical and biophysical changes of the pulmonary surfactant
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Patients with ARDS show improvement but not normalisation of alveolar surface activity with surfactant treatment: putative role of neutral lipids.
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