TNF and acute respiratory distress syndrome: Many other parameters have been reported to be improved by corticosteroid treatment and could have been evaluated, including ascites [50], acute respiratory distress syndrome [38, 40], time to vasopressor cessation [37], arachidonic acid breakdown products [61], amylase, lipase, TNFα, and IL-6 levels [46, 51], and morphological changes of the lungs [54].