Old wine in new wineskins. Hamman-Rich syndrome has much in common with severe COVID-19: Do they share any link of pathogenesis or depend on the similar aetiological factor(s)?
Abstract:For the first time the acute interstitial pneumonitis as a main cause of adult idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome was described in 1933–35 by the American medical scholars Louis Virgil Hamman and Arnold Rice Rich as “acute fibrosing alveolitis” later given the eponymous name Hamman-Rich syndrome. This disease targets the interstitium of the lungs and characterized by fulminant onset, acute respiratory disorder with possibility of respiratory failure, being clinically similar to respiratory distress syndr… Show more
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