Acute Pulmonary Edema After Large Molar Pregnancy Uterine Evacuation

Chemotherapy and human chorionic gonadotropin concentrations 6 months after uterine evacuation of molar pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND Indications for chemotherapy in gestational trophoblastic disease include raised human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) concentrations 6 months after uterine evacuation of hydatidiform mole, even when values are falling. We aimed to establish whether chemotherapy is always necessary in these patients. METHODS We retrospectively identified women registered between January, 1993, and May...

Pulmonary edema after anteroseptal acute myocardial infarction.

To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with anteroseptal myocardial infarction (MI) initially presenting with pulmonary edema, we analyzed 58 patients with anteroseptal MI who underwent emergency coronary arteriography that revealed single-vessel disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Of the 58 patients, pulmonary edema was observed in 24 patients (group A) and w...

Acute pulmonary edema after lung transplantation: the pulmonary reimplantation response.

BACKGROUND Although the development of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema or pulmonary reimplantation response (PRR) after lung transplantation has been well described, the incidence has not been established and the relationship of PRR to clinical risk factors has not been analyzed. STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) To describe the incidence of PRR in lung transplant recipients, (2) to identify the predictors...

Acute Pulmonary Edema

From the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (L.B.W.); and the Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (M.A.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Ware at the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical ...

Acute pulmonary edema after Tityus serrulatus scorpion sting in children.