Introduction: Patients who survived Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) may present long term physical damage that affects their quality of life and respiratory capacity. Restrictive ventilatory disorders, decrease in pulmonary diffusing capacity and changes in quality of life were observed.
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