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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chest. 2008 Nov 18;135(2):269–275. doi: 10.1378/chest.08-0919

Figure 2.

Figure 2

RAGE levels and AFC. RAGE levels in alveolar fluid were significantly higher in lungs with submaximal AFC (≤ 14%/h, n = 14) than in lungs with preserved fluid clearance (> 14%/h, n = 16). The distinction between groups in terms of AFC rates was previously described in patients with hydrostatic pulmonary edema11 and in patients with ALI.5 RAGE levels in the alveolar fluid are expressed as median and centiles. The median is shown by the horizontal line within the box. The values between the lower and upper quartiles (25th to 75th centiles) are within the box. The whiskers represent the limits of the 90th and 10th centile values. Outliers are shown as filled circles (p < 0.05; Mann-Whitney U test).