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Fig. 3

From: Individualizing mechanical ventilation: titration of driving pressure to pulmonary elastance through Young’s modulus in an acute respiratory distress syndrome animal model

Fig. 3

A. Postmortem histological slide showing upper right lobe of a rat from the experimental group, showing minimal capillary congestion. B and C. Postmortem histological slide showing upper right lobe of a rat from the control group showing considerable capillary congestion, active hemorrhage and peri-bronchial edema and increase of the thickness of the alveolar membrane, even alveoli rupture possibly due to barotrauma (C). D. Global ALI score for control and experimental groups (p = 0.02)

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