Pulmonary oedema in pulmonary thromboembolism.

Pulmonary embolism presenting as adult respiratory distress syndrome—support for a hypothesis

“…Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, or ARDS, occurs in a wide variety of clinical settings such as hypovolaemic shock, major trauma and septicaemia. It has been described as a complication of classic pulmonary thromboembolism by Windebank and Moran (1973), and in more detail in a case report by Meth et al (1975), though in this instance no pulmonary capillary 'wedge' pressures were obtained. In the present case pulmonary embolism was documented by angiography and the normal capillary 'wedge' pressures exclude left ventricular failure as a cause of the pulmonary oedema.…”