Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) occurs when a large, negative intrathoracic pressure is generated against an obstructed upper airway, causing fluid to shift into the lung interstitium.

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow down your overall risk here.

Turpentine can cause pulmonary edema, a dangerous health condition ... the physician will listen to the patient's lungs to check for abnormal sounds, and the respiratory rate will also be measured.

Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital lung developmental anomaly characterized ... The respiratory rate was 36 breaths per minute, with coarse breath sounds in both lungs and fixed fine ...

Learn More Causes and Risk Factors of COPD How is COPD diagnosed? If a patient has symptoms suggestive of COPD (e.g., persistent or worsening shortness of breath), the diagnosis can be confirmed with ...

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Teamwork: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Early Lung Cancer: Personalized Care A nurse practitioner with NYU's pulmonary intervention team chronicles the NSCLC patient experience from diagnosis to ...

For 48 h, parents also noticed an altered general status, peripheral edema as well as a fast ... after the episode (Figure 3). Pulmonary hypertension is divided in five groups: pulmonary artery ...

The extent of lung congestion, as indicated by the presence of moist sounds, was greater in severe ... in the treatment of high-altitude pulmonary edema, 6 the effective diuresis with furosemide ...

To address these clinical challenges, this paper proposes a novel deep learning approach for the non-invasive detection of adenoid hypertrophy using heartlung sounds. Firstly, we established a ...