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Polymorphism in the surfactant protein-B gene, gender, and the risk of direct pulmonary injury and ARDS.
Chest - 1 Jan 2004
Gong Michelle Ng, Wei Zhou, Xu Li-Lian, Miller David P, Thompson B Taylor, Christiani David C
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STUDY OBJECTIVE: Major risk factors for ARDS have been identified. However, only a minority of patients with such risks develops ARDS. It is likely that, given the same type and degree of insult, there are heritable determinants of susceptibility to ARDS. To investigate the possibility of variabl...
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