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Improvement of Pulmonary Gas Exchange After Surfactant Replacement in Rats with Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia
Infectious diseases are of great concern in intensive care health service in immunocompromized patients; especially infectious diseases of the lung. In these patients pneumocystis carinii is a major cause of p...
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Oxygen Uptake in the Lungs under Pathological Conditions and its Therapeutic Effects
One of the most important clinical syndromes in which failure of oxygen uptake in the lung leads to severe hypoxia, with a mortality rate of 40–70%, is the so-called adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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Acute Respiratory Failure During Pneumonia Induced by Sendai Virus
Although there is no universal agreement on the criteria for the diagnosis of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the syndrome is characterized by distinct clinical and pathophysiological features ...