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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is defined as an acute disorder that starts within seven days of the inciting event and is characterized by bilateral lung infiltrates and severe progressive hypoxemia in the absence of any evidence of cardiogenic pulmonary edema. ARDS is defined by the patient's oxygen in arterial blood (PaO2) to the fraction of the oxygen in the inspired air (FiO2). These patients have a PaO2/FiO2 ratio of less than 300. [from HPO]

Respiratory distress is objectively observable as the physical or emotional consequences from the experience of dyspnea. The physical presentation of respiratory distress is generally referred to as labored breathing, while the sensation of respiratory distress is called shortness of breath or dyspnea. [from HPO]

Systemic inflammatory response to infection. [from HPO]

A very severe form of acute pulmonary failure secondary to capillary permeability impairment. The symptoms include dyspnea, hypotension and multivisceral failure. The disease is characterized by bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and severe hypoxemia due to increased alveolar-capillary permeability. The severity depends on the degree of alveolar epithelial injury, with a mortality rate of 30-50%. [from ORDO]

Arrest of lung development in the cananicular stage (weeks 18 to 26 of human gestation) resulting in simplified acinar spaces, frequently with abundant intervening mesenchyme and no alveoli. In later arrest growth stages early saccular formations may be seen. May resemble the lobular maldevelopment often seen in alveolar capillary dysplasia/misaligment of the pulmonary veins without vein misalignment or marked hypertensive changes of the pulmonary arteries. [from HPO]