Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia

Acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening condition with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Here we discuss a case of acute pulmonary edema in an antenatal woman with pregnancy complicated by chronic severe constipation, highlighting the importance of the ne...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Harpreet, Kolli, Madhu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8597678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804742
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19305
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description Acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening condition with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Here we discuss a case of acute pulmonary edema in an antenatal woman with pregnancy complicated by chronic severe constipation, highlighting the importance of the need for close liaison between obstetricians and other specialties in the management of pregnant women.
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spelling pubmed-85976782021-11-20 Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia Kaur, Harpreet Kolli, Madhu Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening condition with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Here we discuss a case of acute pulmonary edema in an antenatal woman with pregnancy complicated by chronic severe constipation, highlighting the importance of the need for close liaison between obstetricians and other specialties in the management of pregnant women. Cureus 2021-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8597678/ /pubmed/34804742 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19305 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kaur et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title_full Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title_fullStr Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title_full_unstemmed Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title_short Acute Pulmonary Edema in Pregnancy – Fluid Overload or Atypical Pre-eclampsia
title_sort acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy – fluid overload or atypical pre-eclampsia
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8597678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804742
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19305
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