Non-cardiac pulmonary edema following intravenous contrast injection

✍ Scribed by J. L. Delacour; C. Floriot; G. Wagschal; P. Daoudal; R. Chambers; P. Bui Xuan

• Book ID: 104685706
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1238
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00255637

✦ Synopsis

Acute non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema (NCPE) following intravenous administration of contrast media is a rare but life-threatening complication of radiologic contrast material. We recently observed this complication as an idiosyncratic reaction following a coelio-mesenteric arteriography.