Analysis of pulmonary vascular injury and repair during Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection‐induced pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome

Herein we describe lung vascular injury and repair using a rodent model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia‐induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during: 1) the exudative phase (48‐hour survivors) and 2) the reparative/fibro‐proliferative phase (1‐week survivors). Pneumonia was induced by intratracheal instillation of P. aeruginosa strain PA103, and lung morphology and pulmonary vascular function were determined subsequently....