✦ LIBER ✦
Fulminant pulmonary edema after near-drowning: remarkably high colloid osmotic pressure in tracheal fluid
✍ Scribed by P. Lheureux; J. -L. Vincent; S. Brimioulle
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1238
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✦ Synopsis
A 44-year-old man developed severe permeability pulmonary edema associated with septic shock after near-drowning. Colloid osmotic pressure (COP) of deep tracheal fluid was persistently higher than plasma COP. Tracheal/plasma COP ratio reached a peak value of 1.75. A massive colloid infusion of 5% protein solution was incriminated in the development of this markedly elevated COP in the tracheal fluid.