“…Among these are symptomatic measures, like management of fluid balance, and more recent therapeutic options, like inhalation of NO (2,4,8,11,12,17,18,28,35). These are both important since, apart from treatment of the underlying disease, there is no causal therapeutic approach (20,22,25,37,43). However, it still has to be evaluated in further studies wether a differentiated therapeutic strategy which might result from radioisotope albumin flux measurement can improve the outcome in patients with acute respiratory failure.…”