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SUBMITTER: Park J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731189 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Jinkyeong J Pabon Maria M Choi Augustine M K AMK Siempos Ilias I II Fredenburgh Laura E LE Baron Rebecca M RM Jeon Kyeongman K Chung Chi Ryang CR Yang Jeong Hoon JH Park Chi-Min CM Suh Gee Young GY
BMC pulmonary medicine 20171215 1
<h4>Background</h4>Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is potentially underrecognized by clinicians. Early recognition and subsequent optimal treatment of patients with ARDS may be facilitated by usage of biomarkers. Surfactant protein D (SP-D), a marker of alveolar epithelial injury, has been proposed as a potentially useful biomarker for diagnosis of ARDS in a few studies. We tried to validate the performance of plasma SP-D levels for diagnosis of ARDS.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a ret ...[more]