Radiographic differentiation between different etiologies of pulmonary edema. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We compared the plain chest radiographs of critically ill patients who had different types of pulmonary edema and evaluated the radiographs according to a standardized score sheet of findings. We included 94 total cases of pulmonary edema: 49 with cardiogenic, 33 with permeability, and 12 with renal/overhydration pulmonary edema. Patients with cardiogenic edema had enlarged hearts, vascular engorgement, septal lines, and absence of air bronchograms significantly more often than patients with permeability pulmonary edema. Renal/overhydration patients had enlarged hearts significantly more often than patients with permeability edema. There were no other statistically significant differences. Heart size and presence or absence of septal lines could have been used to distinguish cardiogenic and permeability edema in 83% of cases.

publication date

  • November 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Pulmonary Edema

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023620232

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/00004424-198711000-00003

PubMed ID

  • 3429181

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 22

issue

  • 11