Pulmonary edema and adult respiratory distress syndrome

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affects 12 million Americans—most of them smokers. Here, we'...

More than 40000 people die each year from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition with no effecti...

About the Video: Margaret Martins suffered from a life-threatening form of pulmonary hypertension kn...

comprehensive pulmonary hypertension program, which is considered one of the best in the country. Ab...

About the Video: Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, or PTE, is a delicate and complex 8-hour surgery t...

In this short video, viewers are introduced to Montserrat Diaz-Abad, MD, a pulmonary and critical ca...

Department of Pulmonary medicine,vss medical college,burla. In medicine, pulmonology (aka pneumology...

July 25, 2007 presentation by Norman Rizk for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series...

In medicine, flash pulmonary edema (FPE), is rapid onset pul...

High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening f...

High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening f...

High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening f...

High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening f...

High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening f...

Edema (American English) or oedema (British English; both wo...

High altitude constitutes an exciting natural laboratory for medical research. Over the past decade, it has become clear that the results of high-altitude research may have important implications not only for the understanding of diseases in the millions of people living permanently at high altitude, but also for the treatment of hypoxemia-related disease states in patients living at low altitude. High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is a life-threatening condition occurring in predisposed, but otherwise healthy subjects, and, therefore, allows...

Serum and pulmonary edema fluid samples of 26 patients with pulmonary edema were examined. The correlation coefficient comparing measured colloid osmotic pressure (COPm) to calculated colloid osmotic pressure (COPc) (Landis and Pappenheimer equation) was 0.84. Significant differences between COPm and COPc were noted when total protein (TP) concentrations were less than or greater than 5 g/dl (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). Twenty-one of 69 samples (30%) had a greater than 4 mm Hg difference between measured and calculated values. COP sh...

This case report describes a 61-year-old man who developed reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) of the collapsed left lung after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery because of left thoracic empyema, complicated with secondary contralateral pulmonary edema later. The left lung was gently reexpanded after surgery under one-lung ventilation anesthesia for 2.5 hours. The patient developed RPE of the left lung immediately after surgery, and required mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure support. RPE was resolved within 24 hours....

We experienced a case of reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) after surgical treatment of pneumothorax. In this case, protein leakage and polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) accumulation were observed in the reexpanded lung. Interleukin-8 and leukotriene B4 in edema fluid were increased at the onset of RPE. PMN elastase was also increased, though its peak was delayed. The plasma level of P-selectin, which mediates adhesion between PMN and endothelium, was elevated. We speculate that some of these fluid mediators may play important roles in chemotaxi...

BACKGROUND: Congestive heart failure is a common cardiac disorder associated with a high mortality. There are a limited number of prognostic scales predicting in-hospital outcomes after an acute episode of congestive heart failure. OBJECTIVES: The goal of this investigation was to develop a simple prognostic score predicting in-hospital outcome in patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 276 consecutive patients hospitalized with acute pulmonary edema from the years 1998 to 2000. RESULTS: During the i...