2022
DOI: 10.47119/ijrp100941220222815
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Serum Surfactant Protein-D (SP-D) Level: Does it Correlates with Pulmonary Compliance and ARDS in Severe Cases of COVID-19?

Abstract: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) happens to 67% of all severe COVID-19 cases with mortality rate of 50-94%. Main characteristics of ARDS are poor oxygenation and non-compliant lungs. The lungs are like inflatable balloons that are actively inflated by the positive pressure within and/or the negative pressure created in the pleural cavity. Compliance is the ability of the lungs to distend at a certain level of transpulmonary pressure.Surfactant lowers the surface tension of the alveoli so that end-exp… Show more

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