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Some Current Concepts of Pulmonary Edema
LT. CMDR. IVAN D. BARONOFSKY, MC;
LT. J. WILLIAM COX, MC
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;96(3):375-379.
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It appears that pulmonary edema would be a subject about which much agreement could be reached as to its definition, physiopathology, clinical recognition, and treatment. However, such is not the case. There exists today a marked dichotomy of thought between clinicians who study patients and physiologists who study mechanisms. The internist usually designates the condition by a physiologic term, namely, "left ventricular failure," which physiologists abhor. On the other hand, the physiologists adhere to a simple clinical term, "acute pulmonary edema."
It is with the above in mind, and with the realization that as clinicians it behooves us to think therapeutically as well as physiologically, that the following report is presented. It is not intended to be an extensive review of the literature but simply a review of some of the more recent findings as related to therapy.
DEFINITION
Pulmonary edema may be defined as the transudation of plasma into
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Author Affiliations
U. S. N. R.
From the U. S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 13, 1955.
Read in the Symposium on Respiratory Diseases at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 9, 1955.
The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the writer, and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the view of the Navy Department or the Naval Service at large.
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