High-altitude pulmonary edema with absent right pulmonary artery.
High-altitude pulmonary edema potentially is fatal. Adults with unilateral absence of a right pulmonary artery are particularly susceptible to high-altitude pulmonary edema. The occurrence of high-altitude pulmonary edema was documented in a child with congenital absence of the right pulmonary artery. Improvement occurred only upon descent to low altitude. Physicians should be aware of this life-threatening condition in children ascending to high altitude, particularly in individuals with unilateral absence of a pulmonary artery.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011859:Radiography