Upper airway obstruction as a cause of pulmonary edema during late pregnancy.
We describe a 35-year-old woman who developed pulmonary edema at 38 weeks of pregnancy as a result of upper airway obstruction caused by a progressively enlarging euthyroid goiter.
D000328:Adult; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology*