Deceptive patterns of uremic pulmonary edema.
Three uremic patients had chest x-ray changes due to pulmonary edema, but mimicking lobar pneumonia and fungal or metastatic disease. It is important to be aware of these deceptive radiographic patterns. Otherwise, a potentially disastrous delay in fluid removal, the mainstay of therapy, may result.
D000328:Adult; D001769:Blood; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014462:Ultrafiltration; D014511:Uremia / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy