Volume: 6 Issue: 2
Year: 2018, Page: 74-75,
Introduction: Severe Sepsis may cause acute lung injury mimicking Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI)and may pose a diagnostic challenge to the pulmonologist and hematologist. We present a rare known case of Auto-immune hemolytic anaemia presented with ARDS secondary to septicemia resembling TRALI.
Keywords: Septicemia, ARDS, TRALI.
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Vujhini S, Narahari N, Shanthi B. Septicemia Induced ARDS Mimicking Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury. Perspectives in Medical Research 2018;6(2):74-75.