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Abstract
Dear Editor Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients with disease predominantly in the posterobasal lung regions (i.e., focal ARDS) benefited from prone positioning, while patients with diffuse (non-focal) ARDS benefited from recruitment maneuvers and high positive end-expiratory pressures, provided focal ARDS was correctly classified [1]. Admission diagnoses were as follows: pneumonia (61 patients; 40.1%), non-pneumonia sepsis (19; 12.5%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (9; 5.9%), acute myocardial infarction (3; 2.0%), stroke (12; 7.9%), other diagnoses such as massive hemoptysis, pulmonary vasculitis and pneumonitis (48; 32.6%). A VR of < 1.2 was associated with focal ARDS (odds ratio 3.41, 95% confidence interval 1.05–11.1, P = 0.041), with sensitivity 31.3%, specificity 88.3%, positive predictive value 23.8%, and negative predictive value 91.6%.
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