Monday 25 November 2013

Pulmonary vascular disease: Diseases associated to Pulmonary edema

Pulmonary vascular disease is defined as a condition of blood flow to the lung’s artery is blocked suddenly due to a blood clot somewhere in the body, including pulmonary embolism, chronic thromboembolic disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, pulmonary arteriovenous malformations, pulmonary edema, etc.
Pulmonary edema
Pulmonary edema is defined as a condition of fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs of that can lead to difficult of breathing and respiratory failure.
Diseases associated to Pulmonary edema
1. Multiple sclerosis
young woman with multiple sclerosis presented to the Emergency Department in acute respiratory failure. She was cyanotic centrally, hypertensive, and tachycardic. The chest X-ray study suggested pulmonary edema, according to the study by the Centre for Neuroscience and Neurological Research, St Vincent’s Hospital(16).
2. Primary cardiac chondroma
Primary chondroma is an exceptionally rare cardiac tumor. There is a report of a case of a patient presenting with acute pulmonary edema with the incidental echocardiographic finding of a large left atrial tumor that was histopathologically diagnosed as primary cardiac chondroma(17).
3. Atrial myxoma
Atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. Its clinical presentation spreads from asymptomatic incidental mass to serious life-threatening cardiovascular complications. There is a report of the case of a 44-year-old man with evening fever and worsening dyspnea in the last weeks, admitted to our hospital for acute pulmonary edema(18).
4. Pleural effusion or pneumothorax
Re-expansion pulmonary edema (RPE) is a rare but potentially fatal complication that can occur following rapid lung expansion while managing patients with pleural effusion or pneumothorax. In this case, fatal outcome occurred due to RPE in a previously healthy young adult male patient subsequent to tube thoracostomy for spontaneous pneumothorax(19),
5. Etc.

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(a) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19739476
(16) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22989694
(17) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20889354
(18) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23762077
(19) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23744860

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