Hydrostatic pulmonary edema is a common complication of congestive heart failure, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is a mitogen for type II alveolar epithelial and microvascular cells. We utilized the isolated perfused rat lung model to produce hydrostatic pulmonary edema by varying the left atrial and pulmonary capillary pressure. Pretreatment ...

PURPOSE To present the case of an initially unexplained complication of sudden pulmonary edema in a patient during stenting of the carotid artery in the interventional neurology suite. CLINICAL FEATURES A 46-yr-old woman (ASA III) having an intracavernous carotid artery angioplasty and stenting procedure under neurolept anesthesia developed sudden pulmonary edema on completion of an otherwise...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension is usually due to an underlying cardiac or pulmonary condition. An association between unexplained pulmonary hypertension and bilateral leg edema in primary care patients was found previously. We undertook this study to identify the frequency of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in ambulatory, adult patients with pulmonary hypertension who initially presented with ...

The purpose of this study was to assess lung function in runners with marathon-induced lung edema. Thirty-six (24 males) healthy subjects, 34 (SD 9) years old, body mass index 23.7 (2.6) kg/m(2) had posterior/anterior (PA) radiographs taken 1 day before and 21 (6) minutes post marathon finish. Pulmonary function was performed 1-3 weeks before and 73 (27) minutes post finish. The PA radiographs ...

/CHEMICAL substances have been widely \_j used as experimental tools in investigations of the pathogenesis of pulmonary edema. It is reasonable to expect chemicals to increase capillary permeability, and phosgene is a good example. This agent has been shown not to affect pulmonary arterial pressure, so that the pulmonary edema is best explained by increased capillary permeability.Surprisingly e...

BACKGROUND Unilateral postoperative pulmonary edema is an underreported adverse event after a minimally invasive cardiac surgical procedure that combines right minithoracotomy with cardiopulmonary bypass. We sought to characterize its incidence, risk factors, and morbidity. METHODS We conducted a retrospective case-control study of all cardiac surgical procedures that combined right-sided min...

In medical literature there are early accounts of what was probably acute pulmonary edema. In these early descriptions, however, it was confused with other catastrophic states manifested by acute cardio-respiratory symptoms. It was not until the eighteenth century that Albertini,1 a student of Malpighi, made the first clinico-pathological correlations. He grouped chronic pulmonary congestion an...

Laparoscopy is a surgical procedure used both for diagnosis and for various treatments. A rare but sometimes fatal complication of laparoscopy is pulmonary embolism with CO2 resulting in pulmonary edema. During laparoscopic gynecological surgery in a 29-year-old woman who had previously undergone lower abdominal surgery, the end-tidal CO2 suddenly increased from 40 mmHg to 85 mmHg and then decr...

Wilson MR, Goddard ME, O’Dea KP, Choudhury S, Takata M. Differential roles of p55 and p75 tumor necrosis factor receptors on stretch-induced pulmonary edema in mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 293: L60–L68, 2007. First published April 13, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00284.2006.—Ventilator-induced lung injury plays a crucial role in the outcome of patients with acute lung injury. Previous ...