[Toxi-infectious shock pneumopathy. A morphological study (author's transl)]

The lungs of 68 septicaemic patients have been systematically studied and compared. The observed lesions include a whole range if alterations usually described in routine sampling of lungs in cases of deaths from diverse diseases. One lesion however appears more frequent and intense: infection of the pulmonary oedema. Inflammatory reactions are associated to acute arteritis at different stages of evolution which, in these patients, was more frequent in cases of shock.