Lesão alveolar difusa (Fase proliferativa - fibrótica)

ABSTRACTDiffuse 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.REV PORT PNEUMOL 2000; VI (6): 691-69