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pulmonary edema
Sign in to saveAlso known as pulmonary oedema, edema pulmonary, plicní edém, pulmonary congestion
fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs
Key facts
- Other names
- Pulmonary oedema
- Specialty
- Cardiology , critical care medicine , pulmonology
- Symptoms
- Progressive dyspnea , cough , fever , cyanosis , tachycardia
- Complications
- ARDS , respiratory failure
- Causes
- Cardiogenic, Noncardiogenic ( pneumonia , inhalation injury, sepsis , airway obstruction , high altitude)
- Diagnostic method
- Medical imaging , lab tests, ECG , echocardiography
- Treatment
- Supplemental oxygen, diuretics , treat underlying disease process
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
37,769 papers- [Acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema].Revue medicale de Liege · 2004
- Re-expansion pulmonary oedema.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2022
- Pulmonary oedema.British journal of diseases of the chest · 1980
- Pulmonary oedema.Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) · 2016
- Pulmonary oedema.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 1981
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Pulmonary edema.jpg
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- ICPC 2 ID
- R99
- Commons category
- Pulmonary edema
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- mannitol hexanitrate
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26868
- afflicts
- lung
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0019151
- health specialty
- medical emergency
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- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
Pulmonary edema (British English: oedema), also known as pulmonary congestion, is excessive fluid accumulation in the tissue or air spaces (usually alveoli) of the lungs. This leads to impaired gas exchange, most often leading to shortness of breath (dyspnea) which can progress to hypoxemia and respiratory failure. Pulmonary edema has multiple causes and is traditionally classified as cardiogenic (caused by the heart) or noncardiogenic (all other types not caused by the heart).
Various laboratory tests (CBC, troponin, BNP, etc.) and imaging studies (chest x-ray, CT scan, ultrasound) are often used to diagnose and classify the cause of pulmonary edema.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pulmonary edema” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.