Genetic factors impacting therapy in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome.

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Acute lung injury (ALI) and its most severe form the acute respiratory distress syndrome occur in patients who have a predisposing severe inflammatory insult to the lung. Most often ALI is due to sepsis from bacterial infection, but ALI can occur with any infection and with noninfectious insults such as severe trauma, acute pancreatitis, aspiration, and near-drowning. After any of these insults, the...

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