... deaths [2].ARDS formally defined as a syndrome of inflammationand increased permeability, is associated with a constella-tion of clinical, radiological and physiological abnormalitiesthat ... details1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty, Adnan MenderesUniversity, Aydin, Turkey.2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation,Medical Faculty, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, ... also usedfor all patients in our study. We ascribe our lower mor-tality rate in our study, in part, to our use of low-tidal-volume ventilation as a ventilatory management strategy in intraoperative...