Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3025752 | Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) is the histologic correlate of most patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It is a relatively straight forward diagnosis and the main differential diagnosis clinically is acute pneumonia and histologically is bronchiolitis obliterans and organizing pneumonia (BOOP). The histologic progression of DAD includes 3 phases (exudative, proliferative, and fibrotic) that correlate with the time rather than its specific cause. The factors that govern which patients will do well and which will develop a fulminant course is not known.
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Authors
Claudia Y. Castro,