Lung injury

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Broader Terms

injury, lung disorder

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Ventilation-induced lung injury is associated with an increase in gut permeability.
• Sensitivity to bleomycin-induced lung injury is not moderated by an antigen-limited T-cell repertoire.
• Because treatment of acid-induced lung injury is lacking, investigators are examining how the body heals itself from such insults in the hopes of harnessing the same mechanisms for improved medical therapies.
• The incidence of Acute Lung Injury is estimated at 150,000 a year with a mortality rate of at least 30 percent to 50 percent.
• Acute lung injury is a clinical syndrome characterized by airspace flooding with the development of an intrapulmonary shunt resulting in hypoxemic respiratory failure.

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