Pulmonary pathology of acute respiratory distress syndrome
JF Tomashefski Jr - Clinics in chest medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) encompasses a relatively uniform constellation
of clinical, radiographic, and physiologic features in patients with rapidly evolving respiratory
failure. 3, 5 The syndrome is a wide avenue entered via many different sidestreets that
represent the various initiating causes of severe lung injury. Just as the clinical syndrome is
a generalized response, the pathologic features of the lung are stereotypic. Histologic
examination of lung tissue rarely affords the pathologist a definitive diagnosis of the original …
of clinical, radiographic, and physiologic features in patients with rapidly evolving respiratory
failure. 3, 5 The syndrome is a wide avenue entered via many different sidestreets that
represent the various initiating causes of severe lung injury. Just as the clinical syndrome is
a generalized response, the pathologic features of the lung are stereotypic. Histologic
examination of lung tissue rarely affords the pathologist a definitive diagnosis of the original …