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Acute lung injury (ALI) is a diffuse heterogeneous lung injury characterized by hypoxemia non cardiogenic pulmonary edema low lung compliance and widespread capillary leakage. ALI is caused by any stimulus of local or systemic inflammation principally sepsis. The term acute lung injury has been abandoned in the 2012 Berlin classification of ARDS and this state is now called mild ARDS. For its diagnosis it is no longer necessary to measure pulmonary capillary wedge pressure.