What does DAD stand for?

Diffuse Alveolar Damage

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A postmortem examination was performed and revealed: * 10 mm diameter PDA * histological evidence of pulmonary hypertension characterised by myointimal proliferation and muscular hypertrophy * multiple small pulmonary thrombo-emboli * right-sided bronchopneumonia * histological features of diffuse alveolar damage.

Incidental MDCT finding of a subclinical PDA in an adult patient with ...

Severe viral pneumonia accompanied by diffuse alveolar damage develops in patients infected with influenza virus (H5N1) (6).

Human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) ...

Lung histology demonstrates diffuse alveolar damage superimposed on the existing fibrotic lung.

A clinician's guide to the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial ...

Diffuse alveolar damage refers to the pathologic description of lung injury due to a wide variety of causative agents; and the lung tissue generally responds to the injury in a similar manner regardless of the causative agent.

Anti-interleukin 8 autoantibody:interleukin 8 immune complexes ...

1-3) Hypercytokinemia leads to fever and multiorgan dysfunction including pancytopenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), diffuse alveolar damage, hepatosplenomegaly, elevation of serum ferritin, triglycerides and liver enzymes and neurologic disorders.

Fatal reactive hemophagocytosis related to disseminated ...

Common findings in both patients were diffuse alveolar damage and positive staining for influenza A virus antigen in alveolar epithelial cells (Figure 1).

Apoptosis and pathogenesis of avian influenza a (H5N1) virus in humans

Histologic sections showed diffuse alveolar damage changes (Fig.

Pulmonary hemorrhage syndrome associated with an autochthonous case ...

One patient showed associated diffuse alveolar damage on the open lung biopsy.

Metastatic angiosarcoma masquerading as diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage: ...