Pulmonary inflammation successfully alleviated through targeted drug delivery

Pulmonary inflammation can cause shallow breathing and the lungs to become brittle in patients who experience multiple blood transfusions, sepsis, lung surgery and acute lung trauma. This complication can leave patients on ventilators, which can further traumatize the lungs, and often results in a mortality rate of 30 to 40 percent. Now, a multidisciplinary research team has found that when delivered by a microscopic transporter called a nanocarrier, steroids can access the hard-to-reach lung en...