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Acute Lung Injury

"Acute Lung Injury" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A condition of lung damage that is characterized by bilateral pulmonary infiltrates (PULMONARY EDEMA) rich in NEUTROPHILS, and in the absence of clinical HEART FAILURE. This can represent a spectrum of pulmonary lesions, endothelial and epithelial, due to numerous factors (physical, chemical, or biological).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Acute Lung Injury" by people in this website by year, and whether "Acute Lung Injury" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2010 and 2011
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