From the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of internal Medicine, the Department of Pathology, and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This work was supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL31963) and by the American Heart Association with funds contributed in par...

CONTEXT The acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome are critical illnesses associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Mechanical ventilation is the cornerstone of supportive therapy. However, despite several important advances, the optimal strategy for ventilation and adjunctive therapies for patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome is ...

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a rare but severe complication of miliary tuberculosis, which may appear even after introduction of antituberculosis therapy. Mortality has been reported to be as high as 100% if there is associated pancytopenia. We report a case of a patient infected with the human immunodeficiency virus who presented with miliary tuberculosis associated with pancy...

A patient with the adult respiratory distress syndrome was found to have an alveolar allergic reaction demonstrated by transbronchial lung biopsy. The clinical course and subsequent skin test reactivity suggested ampicillin as the cause. This is an unusual presentation of ampicillin allergy, and drug sensitivity is suggested as another cause of the adult respiratory distress syndrome.

background respiratory distress syndrome (rds) is considered as one of the most popular prematurity-related respiratory problems and among the most prominent reasons of deaths in preterm infants. objectives brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) is the secret of the volume and pressure overload response of the vessels and decreases due to resistance as well as rises in systemic vessels and also in dec...

Cellular mechanisms of acute lung injury: implications for future treatment in the adult respiratory distress syndrome The adult respiratory distress syndrome is a catastrophic form of lung injury. When originally described by Ashbaugh and his coworkers in 1967 it had an associated mortality approaching 70%.' Over the intervening 20 years progress in developing specific treatment for it has bee...