PROGNOSIS
The mortality rate in ARDS is 50 to 80 per cent. In any particular patient this is strongly influenced by the presence of other acute or chronic disorders. The cause of death is often unclear. Infection, particularly when associated with bacteremia of unknown origin, is a major determinant of mortality. Inadequate tissue oxygenation and organ failure are also likely to play significant roles.
Of those patients who survive the acute event, the prognosis depends primarily on the presence of other underlying disease. For most patients who began with normal lungs, pulmonary function returns slowly toward normal. A small number of patients will be left with residual fibrosis, rarely of a severe nature.
- THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS
- Conjugated Hyperbilirubinemia
- Outcomes of Dialysis
- SPECIFIC CAUSES OF CIRRHOSIS
- Management
- Aminoaciduria
- MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY
- TREATMENT
- Pathogenic Mechanisms - Mechanism of Injury
- MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
- PULMONARY HEART DISEASE
- Renal Artery Occlusion
- CONTROL OF BREATHING IN DISEASE STATES
- CARCINOMA OF THE PANCREAS - Diagnosis
- Incidence
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- PLEURAL EFFUSIONS
- DEFINITION
- Endocrine Systems
- Diagnosis
- SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE
- GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
- EMBOLIC DISEASE
- CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT
- TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS
- TREATMENT
- Cardiovascular
- DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION
- CHIP Perinatal Coverage
- HEART BLOCK
- Ovarian Cancer
- NORMAL GASTRIC PHYSIOLOGY
- RHEUMATIC FEVER
- Etiology and Pathogenesis
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION