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ReviewAnnual review of pathology2011

The acute respiratory distress syndrome: pathogenesis and treatment.

Michael A Matthay, Rachel L Zemans

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Review in Annual review of pathology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03715647 (Correlation of the Driving Pressure With the Survival of Puerperae Under Mechanical Ventilation by Electrical Impedance Tomography), which is not on this map. Cited by 565 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03715647 completednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Correlation of the Driving Pressure With the Survival of Puerperae Under Mechanical Ventilation by Electrical Impedance Tomography

TypeobservationalSponsorAmazon UniversityRan2017 to 2018Enrolled30ConditionsPostpartum Period, Sepsis, Respiratory Distress Syndrome,Adult, HELLP SyndromeArmsSepsis, HELLP Syndrome, Respiratory Distress Syndrome Adult
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

565 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael A MatthayThe Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA. michael.matthay@ucsf.edu
Rachel L Zemans

Funding

MECHANISMS OF ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL FLUID CLEARANCER01HL051854 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MATTHAY, MICHAEL A. · 1994 to 2012
$4.4M
Resolution of Clinical Lung InjuryR37HL051856 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MATTHAY, MICHAEL A. · 2006 to 2015
$3.9M
Mechanisms of Repair of the Alveolar Epithelium after Lung InjuryR01HL131608 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZEMANS, RACHEL LYNNE · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Role of Beta-catenin in Epithelial Repair in Acute Lung InjuryK08HL103772 · NHLBI · NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH · PI ZEMANS, RACHEL LYNNE · 2010 to 2014
$626k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL103772NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL051854NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL131608NHLBI NIH HHS R37 HL051856NHLBI NIH HHS R37HL51854NHLBI NIH HHS R37HL51856NIAID NIH HHS P01AI1053194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) causes 40% mortality in approximately 200,000 critically ill patients annually in the United States. ARDS is caused by protein-rich pulmonary edema that causes severe hypoxemia and impaired carbon dioxide excretion. The clinical disorders associated with the development of ARDS include sepsis, pneumonia, aspiration of gastric contents, and major trauma. The lung injury is caused primarily by neutrophil-dependent and platelet-dependent damage to the endothelial and epithelial barriers of the lung. Resolution is delayed because of injury to the lung epithelial barrier, which prevents removal of alveolar edema fluid and deprives the lung of adequate quantities of surfactant. Lymphocytes may play a role in resolution of lung injury. Mortality has been markedly reduced with a lung-protective ventilatory strategy. However, there is no effective pharmacologic therapy, although cell-based therapy and other therapies currently being tested in clinical trials may provide novel treatments for ARDS.

Indexed as

Respiratory Distress SyndromeHumansPulmonary Alveoli

Identifiers

PMID20936936
PMCPMC3108259

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