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Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (2008) - The Black Vault

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Toxic Inhalational Injury and Toxic Industrial <strong>Chemical</strong>sPrematurityGeneticsNutritionhormonesImmature structureImmature defenseDisrupted alveolargenesisAltered lungstructureInitiation<strong>of</strong> injurySusceptibilityOxygenEnvironmentand toxinsLunginjuryVentilationDisruption epithelial and/orendothelial barrierEdema, inflammationMatrixaccumulationCellularproliferationFibroblastproliferationPersistent/chronicinflammationRepairEpi/endotproliferationApoptosisCellulardifferentiationTissueremodelingMatrixdegradationAltered lungstructureProgression <strong>of</strong> injuryNormallungChronic lungdiseaseMechanism <strong>of</strong> lung injury and repair.Fig. 10-2. Pathophysiology <strong>of</strong> toxic gas inhalation.Epi/Endot: epithelial and/or endothelialAdapted with permission from: Copland I, Tanswell K, Post M. Principals <strong>of</strong> lung development, growth, and repair. In:Notter RH, Finkelstein JN, Holm BA, eds. Lung Injury: Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and <strong>The</strong>rapy. Boca Raton, Fla: Taylor &Francis Group; 2005: 19–66.protein levels were the most sensitive early indicators<strong>of</strong> pulmonary edema. In experiments in rats exposed toPFIB, as the mass exposure concentration increased, theearlier tissue injury occurred. Epithelial and endothelialcell blebbing occurred, which progressed overtime to endothelial swelling and fenestrations <strong>of</strong> theepithelial barrier, denudement <strong>of</strong> the alveolar surface,and interstitial edema. 45 PFIB and phosgene exposurealso caused alteration <strong>of</strong> the production <strong>of</strong> specificsurfactant phospholipids, which can have importantimplications for reduced lung compliance and the subsequenttreatment <strong>of</strong> this injury. 54 In rats exposed to thepyrolysis products <strong>of</strong> Teflon at 450ºC, ultrastructuralchanges in the lung consisted <strong>of</strong> pulmonary edema,hemorrhage, and necrotic tracheobronchial epithelium,accompanied by pneumocyte bleb formation, denuda-349

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