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Chest sonography: a useful tool to differentiate acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema from acute respiratory distress syndrome

BACKGROUND: Differential diagnosis between acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema (APE) and acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) may often be difficult. We evaluated the ability of chest sonography in the identification of characteristic pleuropulmonary signs useful in the dia...

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Autores principales: Copetti, Roberto, Soldati, Gino, Copetti, Paolo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18442425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-6-16