[Unilateral neurogenic pulmonary edema. A case report].
A vascular lesion was identified in the posterior cerebral fossa in a 65-Year-old stroke victim. The patient suddenly developed unilateral pulmonary edema. Bilateral alveolar opacities is the usual radiological aspect of neurogenic pulmonary edema but a unilateral presentation is extremely rare. The differential diagnosis includes excessive vascular filling, infectious pneumonia, gastric fluid aspiration edema, and cardiogenic pulmonary edema. The mechanisms underlying neurogenic pulmonary edema are discussed.
Perrin
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C
Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Pasteur, CHU, 30, avenue de la Voie-Romaine, BP 69, 06002 Nice Cedex 1. perrin.cp@chu-nice.fr
Jullien
V
V
Vénissac
N
N
Lonjon
M
M
Blaive
B
B
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005744:Gastric Acid; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications*