Neutrophils and Acute Lung Injury

摘要: The first detailed clinical-pathological description of “acute respiratory distress in adults’ [1] was provided by Asbaugh and colleagues, who, 1967, identified a group patients that could be differentiated from the majority requiring intensive care management for severe failure on following features: Tachypnea cyanosis refractory to oxygen treatment Markedly reduced lung compliance upon mechanical ventilation Diffuse alveolar shadowing chest radiograph Pulmonary edema, congestion hyaline membranes histological examination necropsy specimens