Dependent Atelectasis: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Cures and Remedies for Dependent Atelectasis.

Even though Dependent atelectasis is quite common, it warrants careful consideration if it is found to be unusually prominent or if it is suggestive of an infiltrate or interstitial disease. Dependent Atelectasis is more common in patients with early ARDSexp compared with ARDSp.

When the weight of the lung is increased because of pulmonary edema, the dependent regions of the lung are compressed and collapse. Unless proper care is excercised, additional lung injury may be caused by large stresses in the parenchyma surrounding atelectatic regions, as well as because of the the large shear stresses required to reopen collapsed airways and alveoli.

It is believed that the increased weight of the lung (due to pulmonary edema, etc.) causes atelectasis/collapse in the dependent regions of the lung.

Dependent atelectasis usually appears as Ground-glass opacity, and often resolves when the patient changes from the supine to the prone position.

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