Identifying PARDS Endotypes

Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS) is a severe and diffuse lung injury that is a common cause of admission and mortality in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). PARDS can be secondary to many different causes, and there are few therapies that have been shown beneficial in PARDS. This study seeks to identify important PARDS subtypes using gene expression profiling of bronchial epithelial cells from control and PARDS subjects.