Fatal COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is Associated with Incomplete Alveolar Type 1 Epithelial Cell Differentiation from the Transitional State Without Fibrosis
C. Ting, M. Aspal, N. Vaishampayan…·R. L. Zemans
The paper shows that in fatal ARDS, alveolar type 1 cells do not fully differentiate from transitional cells without fibrosis, leading to persistent barrier permeability and respiratory failure.