Open AccessTRALI syndrome: Noncardial lung oedema after blood transfusion
Author(s) -
Vesna Maširević,
B Radoje Colovic,
M Basić,
Vitomir Ranković,
Ivan Palibrk,
Ljiljana Ivić
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0201069m
Subject(s) - medicine , ards , pulmonary oedema , intensive care medicine , lung , respiratory distress , pulmonary edema , edema , transfusion related acute lung injury , blood transfusion , surgery
Definition - signs and symptoms which include dispnea, hypertension, high temperature and high productive tracheobronchial secretion. Physical findings are lung oedema in first four hours. Such patients usually require respiratory help. After adequate therapy, symptoms disappeared in 96 hours. In the beginning, TRALI used to be a part of ARDS and it were treated that way. Today, TRALI is understand like substantive group of symptoms