Pathogenesis and target therapy of acute respiratory distress syndrome
Moroz, V.V.; Vlasenko, A.V.; Golubev, A.M.
Anesteziologiia i Reanimatologiia 59(4): 45-52
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-7563 PMID: 25549486 Document Number: 675499
The paper summarizes results of experimental studies and clinical observations of the pathogenesis and effectiveness of respiratory, non-respiratory and pharmacological treatment methods for acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by direct and indirect damaging factors. The article deals with differences and peculiarities of morphological changes and lung functional disorders, clinical, laboratory and instrumental signs of various origins in ARDS and justifies necessity of differential diagnosis and differential treatment of ARDS, depending on the reasons for its development. Furthermore the article discusses an algorithm for differential diagnosis and differential treatment for ARDS caused by direct and indirect damaging factors.