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Neurogenic pulmonary oedema
1Department of Paediatrics, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, U.K.
Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica
|November 1, 1990
Abstract:
Neurogenic pulmonary oedema followed a subarachnoid haemorrhage secondary to an arteriovenous malformation in an eight-year-old boy. Despite a complicated course, he made a full recovery. Neurogenic pulmonary oedema is rare in childhood. It is sudden in onset, and potentially fatal, but is amenable to prompt and vigorous treatment.