Mechanisms of Disease

From the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, N.H. (H.L.M.); and the Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (R.M.S.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Schwartzstein at the Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

Supported by a Pulmonary SCOR grant (HL-19170) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.