Mechanical versus humoral determinants of brain death-induced lung injury.

The mechanisms of brain death (BD)-induced lung injury remain incompletely understood, as uncertainties persist about time-course and relative importance of mechanical and humoral perturbations.Brain death was induced by slow intracranial blood infusion in anesthetized pigs after randomization to pl...

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Main Authors: Asmae Belhaj, Laurence Dewachter, Sandrine Rorive, Myriam Remmelink, Birgit Weynand, Christian Melot, Emeline Hupkens, Céline Dewachter, Jacques Creteur, Kathleen Mc Entee, Robert Naeije, Benoît Rondelet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5533440?pdf=render