Experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia: distribution of lung infection and consequences for lung aeration

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been described in humans and in experimental animals. The most severe lesions are located in dependent lung segments along a sterno-vertebral axis, however the cephalocaudal distribution of lung infection remains unknown. We used an experimental model to eva...

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Main Authors: Silvia Regina Rios Vieira, Ivan Goldstein, Gilles Lenaour, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Jean-Jacques Rouby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000300007&lng=en&tlng=en

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