Monday, December 28, 2009

Unilateral Pulmonary Edema with Contralateral Thoracic Sympathectomy

A case is presented of pathologically proved unilateral pulmonary edema due to uremia and blood transfusion.
The lung that was spared had been denervated by a thoracic sympathectomy eight years earlier. That this
denervation may have been responsible for the unilaterailty of the pulmonary edema is suggested by experimen-
tal evidence supporting a neurogenic etiology of noncardiac pulmonary edema.
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