Best Practice Case Studies-Pulmonary Edema RC

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A 58-year-old male was diagnosed with swimming-induced pulmonary edema, which lacks specific imaging findings. Pulmonary edema can result from volume overload, like heart failure, or endothelial dysfunction. Signs of volume overload include heart and azygos vein enlargement, pleural effusions, and a bat wing pattern opacities. Differentiating pulmonary edema from pneumonia or aspiration involves diuresis; edema resolves within 12-24 hours, while the others take weeks. Key imaging features include an enlarged heart, cephalization of blood vessels, and Kerley-B lines. Pulmonary edema presents with bilateral effusions, obscured cardiac silhouette, and diffuse opacities.

Meta Tag

Edition 3rd Edition

Related Case 3rd Edition, CASE 33

Topic Lung

Keywords

3rd Edition, CASE 33

3rd Edition

Lung

swimming-induced pulmonary edema

imaging findings

volume overload

differential diagnosis

Kerley-B lines