How to Use acute respiratory distress syndrome in a Sentence

acute respiratory distress syndrome

noun
  • Most of these people have acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Brook said, with acute respiratory distress syndrome, an often-fatal fluid leak into the lungs.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2020
  • Experts hope a type of stem cells could play a key role in managing one of the most severe conditions caused by the coronavirus, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 29 May 2020
  • Most of these symptoms lead to what hospitalizes the users, or acute respiratory distress syndrome, according to the Post.
    — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In the most severe cases, the coronavirus causes acute respiratory distress syndrome, where fluid accumulates in the tiny air sacs of the lungs.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
  • Coronavirus patients are at risk of pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, which has a high mortality rate.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2020
  • This supports the idea that in some severe cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome, transplantation may be the only viable option.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Some of these infections progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), in which those sacs fill with fluid.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The acute disease appears to be taking the form of lipoid pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and/or chemical pneumonitis.
    — Michael Siegel, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The illnesses could include lipoid pneumonia and could result in severe lung injury and a very serious condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Those who seemed sickest had pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome — which caused their blood oxygen levels to plummet — and received supplemental oxygen.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2020
  • These inflammatory proteins attack blood vessels around the lungs, filling them with fluid and causing acute respiratory distress syndrome and sometimes death.
    — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2020
  • The gas increases blood flow by relaxing and widening blood vessels in the lungs, and it is regularly used to treat a number of conditions, including acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Schneider said Miranda had pneumonia in both lungs and acute respiratory distress syndrome, a condition where fluid builds up in the small air sacs where lungs exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • Older or immunocompromised people are most vulnerable to severe outcomes like low blood platelet counts, kidney failure or acute respiratory distress syndrome, in which fluid builds up in the lungs.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Fluid from the smallest blood vessels leaks into the tiny air sacs, resulting in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
    — USA Today, 9 June 2020
  • Doctors typically use steroids to tamp down the patient’s immune system to prevent it from attacking the lungs, resulting in sometimes-fatal acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Many of the sickest patients have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS, a disease that floods the lungs with fluid and deprives people of oxygen).
    — Judith Graham, azcentral, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Another major concern when a person has a cardiac arrest is damage to the lungs, a severe injury called acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Severe cases of the disease cause acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS—which almost always requires a person to be on a ventilator.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The man went into respiratory failure, had to be put on a ventilator, and was treated for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 2 July 2020
  • Severely ill patients have signs of what is known as acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, such as extremely low blood oxygen levels, heavy breathing, fatigue and fogginess.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2020
  • In a small number of severe cases that can develop into acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which requires a patient be placed on a ventilator to supply oxygen.
    — USA Today, 14 Mar. 2020
  • After months of struggling to breathe, he was hospitalized with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening condition that left him in a coma for 16 days.
    — CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Newspapers have been filled with vivid descriptions of those in the throes of severe acute Covid-19, battling acute respiratory distress syndrome assisted by mechanical ventilators in ICUs around the world.
    — Hannah Wunsch, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
  • She was admitted to the hospital at 34 weeks and had an emergency C-section of a stillborn baby before being transferred to the ICU with multiple organ dysfunction and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Researchers hope that the TAL system could eventually be a viable strategy for patients who are waiting for donor lungs — specifically, those with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) along with necrotizing pneumonia or septic shock.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Strains of hantavirus can result in hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, characterized by fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, rapid progression to pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and shock, like in individuals on the MV Hondius cruise ship, according to the World Health Organization.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026

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