Alveolar macrophage and acute lung injury / 中国小儿急救医学

ABSTRACT

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a kind of clinical syndrome which is characterized by the rising on capillary permeability.Acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) is a serious kind of manifestation of ALI and also a usual kind of critical illness in children.Alveolar macrophage is the first defense line against pathogenic microorganisms and lung injury.More and more evidences show that it plays an important role during the period of occurrence, development and prognosis in ALI.In the last few years, there is an extensive focus on the effect of alveolar macrophage in ALI.This summarization makes a general review on the recent research progress of the effect of alveolar macrophages in ALI.