Lung inflammation in ARDS - Friend or foe?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1739-1742

  Suter, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHEMOKINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; ENZYME; I KAPPA B; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; PROTEIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; GENE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG INJURY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CONTENT; SUPERINFECTION; SURVIVAL; TIDAL VOLUME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 33645855220     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe068033     Document Type: Editorial

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