Biomarkers for Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome and prospects for personalised medicine

• Main Authors: Savino Spadaro (Author), Mirae Park (Author), Cecilia Turrini (Author), Tanushree Tunstall (Author), Ryan Thwaites (Author), Tommaso Mauri (Author), Riccardo Ragazzi (Author), Paolo Ruggeri (Author), Trevor T. Hansel (Author), Gaetano Caramori (Author), Carlo Alberto Volta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Acute lung injury (ALI) affects over 10% of patients hospitalised in critical care, with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) being the most severe form of ALI and having a mortality rate in the region of 40%. There has been slow but incremental progress in identification of biomarker...