title: [Physiopathology of lung injury in acute pancreatitis].
abstract: Clinically detectable signs of lung injury develop in up to 50-70 percent of patients with acute pancreatitis. Despite that, the physiopathology of the lung injury associated with acute pancreatitis is unclear so far. Pulmonary edema is the main respiratory complication in acute pancreatitis. Increased permeabilities of the pulmonary endothelial and alveolar epithelial barriers are the causes of the pulmonary edema. Several factors have been regarded as the cause to pulmonary edema: release of pancreatic-derived proteolytic enzymes, oxygen-free radicals, phospholipase A2, free fat acids, tumor necrosis factor, platelet activating factor, arachidonic acid metabolites and pulmonary embolization. Understanding lung injury physiopathology enables physicians to a better therapeutic approach of the patients with acute pancreatitis. The aim of this paper is to expose the theories that explain the pancreatic-derived lung injury.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Gastroenterologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alves Júnior
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Sampietre
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kubrusly
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Molan
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Leite
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jancar
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Pinotti
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002199:Capillary Permeability; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
vernacular_title: Fisiopatologia da lesão pulmonar na pancreatite aguda.