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Pages 691-695 (November - December 2000)
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Vol. 6. Issue 6.
Pages 691-695 (November - December 2000)
CASOS CLÍNICOS/CLINICAL CASES
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Lesão alveolar difusa (Fase proliferativa - fibrótica)
Diffuse alveolar damage (Proliferative fibrotic stage)
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Alfredo Martins**, António Paiva Correia***, Aboílio Reis****
** Assistente Hospitalar, Serviço de Medicina I
*** Assistente Hospitalar, Serviço de Anatomia Patológica
**** Assistente Hospitalar Graduado. Serviço de Medicina I
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RESUMO

A lesão alveolar difusa é a manifestação habitual do Síndroma de Dificuldade Respiratória do Adulto (ARDS). Pode-se apresentar em 3 fases: a fase aguda ou exsudativa, a sub-aguda ou proliferativa e a fase crónica ou de fibrose. A presenta-se um caso clínico de um homem de 67 anos com lesão alveolar difusa (fase proliferativa/fibrótica) que recorreu ao Hospital Geral de Santo António por dispneia de esforço de agravamento progressivo. As queixas iniciaramse uma semana antes e veio a falecer ao 25° dia de internamento.

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Palavras-chave:
Lesão alveolar difusa
DAD
síndrome de diculdade respiratória do adullo
ARDS
ABSTRACT

Diffuse Alveolar Damage (DAD) is the usual manifestation of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). From a pathology point of view it presents on three different stages: acute or exsudative, subacute or proliferative and chronic or fibrotic. We describe a clinical case of a 67 year old male who was taken as an inpatient at Hospital Geral de Santo António. The respiratory symptoms have begun a week before. A lung biopsy showed DAD lesion (proliferative /fibrotic stage). He was submitted to mechanical ventilation until death ocurred, 25 days after admission.

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Key-words:
Diffuse Alveolar Damage
DAD
Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
ARDS
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